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On Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 3:25:15 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote: 
> 
> > On Sunday, July 17, 2022 at 12:21:42 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote: 
> >> 
> >> 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 
> 
> 
> ***** 
> 
> 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: 
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> “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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Good find.