[With apologies for my pronunciation of Northumbrian vowels. I know that my version here sounds like no Georgie I’ve ever heard, though perhaps we can blame the Great Vowel Shift for that]
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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