[N.b.: I am posting Caedmon’s Hymn out of sequence (its regular place is in ASPR volume 6, Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems), but my students need to memorize it as part of English 208: Anglo-Saxon Literature.]
Now we must praise the keeper of the heavenly kingdom
The power of the Measurer and his mind-thoughts,
The work of the glory-father; as he, each of wonders,
the eternal Lord, established from the beginning.
He first shaped, for the children of men,
Heaven as a roof, the Holy Shaper,
Then middle-earth, man-kind’s Guardian,
The eternal Lord, afterwards created,
The earth for men, the Lord Almighty.
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