Green wind from the green-gold branches, what is the song y… - William Sharp

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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.

William Sharp

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William Sharp (12 September 1855 – 12 December 1905) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton.

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How beautiful they are,
The lordly ones
Who dwell in the hills,
In the hollow hills.

Down beyond the haven the tide comes with a shout.

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

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