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Article #829066Re: PPB: The Lonely Hunter / Fiona MacLeod
From: vhugofan@gmail.c
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 21:18
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 21:18
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Will Dockery wrote: > On Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 12:24:45 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote: >> >> Posted in its entirety for convenience: >> >> The Lonely Hunter >> Green branches, green branches, I see you >> beckon; I follow! >> Sweet is the place you guard, there in the >> rowan-tree hollow. >> There he lies in the darkness, under the frail >> white flowers, >> Heedless at last, in the silence, of these sweet >> midsummer hours. >> >> But sweeter, it may be, the moss whereon he >> is sleeping now, >> And sweeter the fragrant flowers that may >> crown his moon-white brow: >> And sweeter the shady place deep in an Eden >> hollow >> Wherein he dreams I am with him---and, >> dreaming, whispers, "Follow!" >> 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. >> Green is that hill and lonely, set far in a >> shadowy place; >> White is the hunter's quarry, a lost-loved hu- >> man face: >> O hunting heart, shall you find it, with arrow >> of failing breath, >> Led o'er a green hill lonely by the shadowy >> hound of Death? >> >> Green branches, green branches, you sing of >> a sorrow olden, >> But now it is midsummer weather, earth- >> young, sunripe, golden: >> Here I stand and I wait, here in the rowan- >> tree hollow, >> But never a green leaf whispers, "Follow, oh, >> Follow, Follow!" >> >> O never a green leaf whispers, where the >> green-gold branches swing: >> O never a song I hear now, where one was >> wont to sing >> Here in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to >> me still, >> But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on >> a lonely hill. > Looking at the email address I suspect that this is a forgery ^^^^^ Definitely a forgery, not me...!
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