My Country... by blinkings
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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!
The stark white ring-barked forests,
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.
'My Country' by Dorothea McKellar
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Comments (10)
alanwilliams
Australia and Australians summed up in a few heartfelt verses, i like both the poem and the picture.
whaleman
To me, this says more about Australia than anything I have ever read! Well done!
debbielove
Well put Dorothea.. If only everybody thought this way and this deeply.. But... Fine post.. Rob
flavia49
fantastic capture!!
kgb224
Outstanding capture and a wonderful poem my friend.
Faemike55
Fantastic photo and wonderful & moving poem! What I've personally seen of Australia and her people leaves me feeling great and happy. Cheers mate!
Jean-Luc_Ajrarn
Superb combo of image and poem. :)
jocko500
wonderful
watapki66
Wonderful words and image!
durleybeachbum
My 'love of field and coppice', and GREEN, prevents me sharing these sentiments, but what a good poem, and your pic illustrates it so well.