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Quotation from The Homeric Hymns by Anonymous (Homeric)
“I will sing of well-founded Earth, mother of all, eldest of all beings. She feeds all creatures that are in the world, all that go upon the goodly land, and all that are in the paths of the seas, and all that fly: all these are fed of her store.”
The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XXX, To Earth the Mother of All, ll. 1-4, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
The opening of the hymn to Earth as nourisher of every living thing.
Citation: "I will sing of well-founded Earth, mother of all, eldest of all beings. She feeds all creatures that are in the world, all that go upon the goodly land, and all that are in the paths of the seas, and all that fly: all these are fed of her store." — Anonymous (Homeric), The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XXX, To Earth the Mother of All, ll. 1-4, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914). (id homeric-hymns-q7)
