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"My Country" is a poem written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) at the age of 19 about her love of the Australian landscape. After travelling through Europe extensively with her father during her teenage years, she started writing the poem in London in 1904 [1] and re-wrote it several times before her return to Sydney.
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May 13, 2011 · The sapphire-misted mountains, The hot gold hush of noon, Green tangle of the brushes. Where lithe lianas coil, And orchids deck the tree-tops, And ferns the warm dark soil. Core of my heart, my country! Her pitiless blue sky, When, sick at heart, around us.
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This cherished timeless poem speaks to the core of the Australian heart with its line "I love a sunburnt country". The picture is a page from MacKellar's own notebook to dispel the rugged / ragged confusion. The above link - you can hear the poet read her own poem.
My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror –. The wide brown land for me!
My Country. 20th Century, Flight of Fancy. by Dorothea Mackellar, 1904. The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes. Of ordered woods and gardens. Is running in your veins, Strong love of grey-blue distance. Brown streams and soft dim skies.
"My Country" is a patriotic poem by Australian writer Dorothea Mackellar. Inspired by a conversation Mackellar with a friend after the two had visited England, the poem praises the vast, rugged splendor of the Australian wilderness over the gentler charms of the English countryside.
