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Quotation from Cædmon's Hymn by Cædmon
“just as a clean beast chews on a cud, transformed it into the sweetest of poetry”
Cædmon's Hymn, Bede's account, paragraph 4, trans. Cosette Faust and Stith Thompson (1918)
Bede compares Cædmon's slow pondering of the Scripture he was taught to a clean animal of the Mosaic law chewing the cud.
Citation: "just as a clean beast chews on a cud, transformed it into the sweetest of poetry" — Cædmon, Cædmon's Hymn, Bede's account, paragraph 4, trans. Cosette Faust and Stith Thompson (1918). (id caedmons-hymn-q7)
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