This is the oldest recorded English poem, possibly the oldest extant English text, dating to the seventh century.  The language has changed somewhat 🙂 — here is one version of it in modern English.

Now let me praise the keeper of Heaven’s kingdom,
The might of the Creator, and his thought,
The work of the Father of glory, how each of wonders
The Eternal Lord established in the beginning.
He first created for the sons of men
Heaven as a roof, the holy Creator,
Then Middle-earth the keeper of mankind,
The Eternal Lord, afterwards made,
The earth for men, the Almighty Lord.