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Article #831000Re: PPB: The Lonely Hunter / Fiona MacLeod
From: Will Dockery
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 12:15
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 12:15
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On Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 12:24:45 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote: > On Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 12:55:15 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote: > > You learned all that from the five lines that George Dance wrote? How exactly did you divine those facts? From the word "sweet?" Or, maybe from "heart is a lonely hunter?" > > > > BTW, you have never read "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," have you? > 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. I read and correctly saw that this is a forgery, Pendragon. HTH and HAND.
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