In those twelve days let us be glad,
For God of His power hath all things made.
What are they that are but one?
What are they that are but one?
One God, one Baptism, and one Faith,
One Truth there is, the Scripture saith.

What are they that are but two?
Two Testaments, the old and new,
We do acknowledge to be true.

What are they that are but three?
Three Persons are in Trinity,
Which makes one God in unity.

What are they that are but four?
Four sweet Evangelists there are,
Christ's birth, life, death, which do declare.

What are they that are but five?
Five senses, like five kings, maintain
In every man a several reign.

What are they that are but six?
Six days to labour is not wrong,
For God himself did work so long.

What are they that are but seven?
Seven liberal arts hath God sent down,
With divine skill man's soul to crown.

What are they that are but eight?
Eight beatitudes are there given,
Use them right and go to heaven.

What are they that are but nine?
Nine Muses, like the heavens' nine spheres,
With sacred tunes entice our ears.

What are they that are but ten?
Ten statutes God to Moses gave,
Which, kept or broke, do spill or save.

What are they that are but eleven?
Eleven thousand virgins did partake,
And suffered death for Jesus' sake.

What are they that are but twelve?
Twelve are attending on God's Son;
Twelve make our Creed. The Dial's done.