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My Country
by Dorothea Mackellar
1885-1968, written in 1904
Dorothea Mackellar was born in Sydney in 1885 into a well-established, wealthy family, and was educated privately at theUniversity of Sydney.At 19 years old she wrote a poem, 'My Country', the second verseof which is perhaps the best known stanza in Australian poetry.Her family owned substantial properties in the Gunnedah district of New South Wales and it is in this townwhich claims her as their own, there a statue of her on horseback has been erected. 
 
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,
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