1. Australian Poetry
My Country – by Dorothy Mackeller

2. The love of field and coppice,

3. Of green and shaded lanes.

4. Of ordered woods and gardens

5. Is running in your veins,

6. Strong love of grey-blue distance

7. Brown streams and
soft dim skies

8. I know but cannot share it,

9. My love is otherwise.

10. I love a sunburnt country,

11. A land of sweeping plains,

12. Of ragged mountain ranges,

13. Of droughts and flooding rains.

14. I love her far horizons,

15. I love her jewel-sea,

16. Her beauty and her terror-

17. The wide brown land for me!

18. 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!