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My Country recited by Dorothea Mackellar
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My Country by Dorothea Mackellar https://www.bebee.com/producer/@lance... • My Country by Dorothea Mackellar - 1885-1968, written in 1904 • recited by Dorothea Mackellar • 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 • 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 the 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. • • * * • ----------------------------------------- • Lance Scoular • The Savvy Navigator • ---------------------------------------- • Navigating The Future • ---------------------------------------- • Key Directions • 34 Pinehurst Avenue • Rouse Hill (Sydney) NSW 2155 Australia • Phone: +61 419 944 033 • email: [email protected] • Twitter: / lancescoular • beBee https://www.bebee.com/bee/lancescoular • LinkedIn: / lancescoular • Add me on Snapchat: / lancescoular
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