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Australian Poetry My Country – by Dorothy Mackeller

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Page 1: Week 3   my country b

Australian Poetry

My Country – by Dorothy Mackeller

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The love of field and coppice,

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Of green and shaded lanes.

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Of ordered woods and gardens

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Is running in your veins,

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Strong love of grey-blue distance

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Brown streams and

soft dim skies

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I know but cannot share it,

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My love is otherwise.

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I love a sunburnt country,

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A land of sweeping plains,

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Of ragged mountain ranges,

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Of droughts and flooding rains.

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I love her far horizons,

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I love her jewel-sea,

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Her beauty and her terror-

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The wide brown land for me!

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My Country

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!