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Dorothea Mackellar
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Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar OBE (1 July 1885 – 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.
Quotes
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!
"Core of My Heart" (1908); "My Country" (1911)
The Spectator (5 September 1908), The Closed Door (1911), The Witch Maid, and Other Verses (1914)
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Category:Poets from Australia
Category:Women authors from Australia
Category:1885 births
Category:1960 deaths
Category:Women born in the 1880s