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Will Dockery wrote:

> On Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 12:21:42 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
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>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> The Lonely Hunter, by Fiona MacLeod
>> [...]
>> Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still,
>> But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
>> [...]
>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-lonely-hunter-fiona-macleod.html

> Great choice, George, makes me think of a local girl who made good, Carson McCullers.

> "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"

Yes, indeed:


http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/06/my-heart-is-lonely-hunter-by-fiona.html


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McCullers took the title of her first novel from an old poem by the Scottish poet Fiona Macleod.

This sad, dreamy poem, called “The Lonely Hunter,” is about a girl who mourns her dead lover and thinks about joining him.

It was published in 1896 in the book From the Hills of Dream, a collection of Macleod’s Celtic-flavored poetry.

The line in the poem that inspired McCullers’ book title is the last line in the third verse:

“Green wind from the green-gold branches, what is the song you bring?
What are all songs for me, now, who no more care to sing?
Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still,
But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”

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