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General-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:

> “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.”

> ****************

Again, good find.