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Article #831192Re: PPB: The Lonely Hunter / Fiona MacLeod
From: Will Dockery
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 07:21
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 07:21
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On Monday, August 8, 2022 at 5:22:35 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote: > Will Dockery wrote: > > > 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. > You are correct, Doc, I did not make that post, it was someone impersonating me and my name... In other words, an identity thieving forger. And so it goes.
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