[Text used: Kluge, Angelsächsisches Lesebuch.
Prose translation: Kennedy, The Cædmon Poems, p. xvii.
The poem is interesting in that it is found in two texts, the Northumbrian and the West Saxon. It is the only thing we have that was undoubtedly written by Cædmon.]
Now shall we praise the Prince of heaven,
The might of the Maker and his manifold thought,
The work of the Father: of what wonders he wrought
The Lord everlasting, when he laid out the worlds.
5 He first raised up for the race of men
[The] heaven as a roof, the holy Ruler.
Then the world below, the Ward of mankind,