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!
"My Country”
(1911)
Dorothea Mackellar, poet and novelist, wrote “My
Country” when she was 19. The above lines are among
the best known in Australian poetry.
