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"I love a sunburnt country
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains."
Australian poet and fiction writer Dorothea Mackellar was born #OTD in 1885.
She is best known for her iconic poem "My Country," which expresses her deep love for the Australian landscape. Mackellar published several other volumes of poetry, including "The Witch Maid, and Other Verses" (1914) and "Dreamharbour" (1923).
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Dorothea+Mackellar&submit_search=Go%21
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A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains."
Australian poet and fiction writer Dorothea Mackellar was born #OTD in 1885.
She is best known for her iconic poem "My Country," which expresses her deep love for the Australian landscape. Mackellar published several other volumes of poetry, including "The Witch Maid, and Other Verses" (1914) and "Dreamharbour" (1923).
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Dorothea+Mackellar&submit_search=Go%21
#books #literature #poetry