<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369103" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Country</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The love of field and coppice <br>Of green and shaded lanes, <br>Of ordered woods and gardens <br>Is running in your veins. <br>Strong love of grey-blue distance, <br>Brown streams and soft, dim skies <br>I know, but cannot share it, <br>My love is otherwise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I love a sunburnt country, <br>A land of sweeping plains, <br>Of ragged mountain ranges, <br>Of droughts and flooding rains. <br>I love her far horizons, <br>I love her jewel-sea, <br>Her beauty and her terror <br>The wide brown land for me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stark white ring-barked forests, <br>All tragic to the moon, <br>The sapphire-misted mountains, <br>The hot gold hush of noon, <br>Green tangle of the brushes <br>Where lithe lianas coil, <br>And orchids deck the tree-tops, <br>And ferns the warm dark soil. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Core of my heart, my country! <br>Her pitiless blue sky, <br>When, sick at heart, around us <br>We see the cattle die <br>But then the grey clouds gather, <br>And we can bless again <br>The drumming of an army, <br>The steady soaking rain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Core of my heart, my country! <br>Land of the rainbow gold, <br>For flood and fire and famine <br>She pays us back threefold. <br>Over the thirsty paddocks, <br>Watch, after many days, <br>The filmy veil of greenness <br>That thickens as we gaze ... </div><div style="margin:10px 0">An opal-hearted country, <br>A wilful, lavish land <br>All you who have not loved her, <br>You will not understand <br>though Earth holds many splendours, <br>Wherever I may die, <br>I know to what brown country <br>My homing thoughts will fly. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">**</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dorothea+Mackeller">Dorothea Mackeller</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369103" data-title="My Country de Dorothea Mackeller" data-description="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..."></div> </div> </div>

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