My Country by Dorothea Mackellar - the written poem and spoken on video
My Country by Dorothea Mackellar - the written poem and spoken on video This one of Australia's most iconic poems and is probably also known just as well by the first line of the second verse,
I love a sunburned country…
The poem can be read below as well as listen to the poem recited by the author, Dorothea Mackellar , with a mixture English and Australia images on a YouTube Video which I produced and published on Nov 9, 2012.
My Countryby Dorothea MackellarThe 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.
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Lance Scoular 6 years ago #10
Today, 26 January 2018, is Australia Day. Here are some other Australiana beBee Posts: Clancy of the Overflow - Poem by by A.B. (Banjo) Patterson https://www.bebee.com/producer/@lancescoular/clancy-of-the-overflow Pub with No Beer - Aussie Song https://www.bebee.com/producer/@lancescoular/pub-with-no-beer Waltzing Matilda - Australia's unofficial National Anthem https://www.bebee.com/producer/@lancescoular/waltzing-matilda-australia-s-unofficial-national-anthem THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER - Poem by A.B. (Banjo) Patterson https://www.bebee.com/producer/@lancescoular/the-man-from-snowy-river-by-a-b-banjo-paterson-the-written-poem-and-spoken-on-video
Ken Boddie 7 years ago #2
I had quite forgotten, Lance, how aptly McKellar's words depict our land of extremes, which despite, or is it even because, of its challenges, is the land I have come to love, the Lucky Country.
David B. Grinberg 7 years ago #1
Thanks for sharing this buzz, Lance. I always enjoy learning more about Australia, which is such a beautiful and amazing country. Plus you're there, so what more can one want. Keep buzzing, mate...
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