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May 13, 2011 · Her poem My Country is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains."
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This cherished timeless poem speaks to the core of the Australian heart with its line "I love a sunburnt country". The picture is a page from MacKellar's own notebook to dispel the rugged / ragged confusion.
"My Country" is a patriotic poem by Australian writer Dorothea Mackellar. Inspired by a conversation Mackellar with a friend after the two had visited England, the poem praises the vast, rugged splendor of the Australian wilderness over the gentler charms of the English countryside.
"I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a British patriotic hymn, created in 1921 when music by Gustav Holst had a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice set to it. The music originated as a wordless melody, which Holst later named "Thaxted", taken from the "Jupiter" movement of Holst's 1917 suite The Planets.
Jun 16, 2016 · "I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a British patriotic song, created in 1921, when a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice was set to music by Gustav Holst.The origin of the lyric is a poem by diplomat...
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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!
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Identifying with her home country and its boundless possibilities, the theme of freedom rings as true for the poet as it does for the land she loves. While creating a visual context for her reader, Mackellar also creates the underlying impression of her own dichotomy.
