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Quotation from The Homeric Hymns by Anonymous (Homeric)

“Happy is he whom the Muses love: sweet flows speech from his lips.”

Anonymous (Homeric) (spoken by The singer)

The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XXV, To the Muses and Apollo, ll. 1-5, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)

A brief hymn sets kings as the gift of Zeus and singers as the gift of the Muses and Apollo.

Citation: "Happy is he whom the Muses love: sweet flows speech from his lips." — Anonymous (Homeric), The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XXV, To the Muses and Apollo, ll. 1-5, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914). (id homeric-hymns-q6)

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