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A VERY BEAUTIFUL POEM WRITTEN BY DOROTHEA MACKELLAR.Dorothea Mackellar was a second generation Australian. Her Grandparents arrived in Australia from Scotland in 1839. She wrote MY COUNTRY while in England and apparently was very homesick for the land of her birth. I learnt this poem off by heart when I was a school girl... many,many moons ago! AUSTRALIA "ALL YOU WHO HAVE NOT LOVED HER, YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND" - MY COUNTRY... The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes. Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in my veins, Strong love of grey-blue distance Brown streams and soft dim skies I know but cannot share it, 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! A stark white ring-barked forest All tragic to the moon, 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, We see the cattle die - But then the grey clouds gather, And we can bless again The drumming of an army, The steady soaking rain. Core of my heart my country! Land of the Rainbow Gold, For flood and fire and famine, She pays us back threefold - Over thirsty paddocks, Watch, after many days, The filmy veil of greenness That thickens as we gaze. An opal-hearted country, A wilful, lavish land - All you who have not loved her, You will not understand - Though earth holds many splendours, Wherever I may die, I know to what brown country My homing thoughts will fly. 22:45 - Monday, April 3, 2006 - post commentShare and enjoy
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   Hello I am a wife and a Mother of two adult children and a GrandMother of six beautiful GrandChildren.I have been married 41 years. I like to paint, read, do crosswords and dabble with my pen, writing my thoughts in a journal and trying to write the odd poem or prose. A MOTTO I LIKE TO LIVE BY IS... LOVE ALL, SERVE ALL, HURT NEVER, HELP EVER.  
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