"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 terrorβ The wide brown land for me!"
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The Spectator (5 September 1908), The Closed Door (1911), The Witch Maid, and Other Verses (1914)
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Dorothea Mackellar
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar OBE (1 July 1885 β 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem "My Country" is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, quoted below.
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