I'd like to meet:
Anyone Australian, anyone who loves Australia, anyone who has ever dreamt of visiting Australia...........Austraphiles, if you will... ;)/////////My Country//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 lies otherwise.//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!//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!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die ----
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.//Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold;
Over thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.//An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land ----
All who have not loved her,
You will not understand ----
Though earth holds many splendors,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.//Dorothea Mackellar//
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The most creative answer will win a Maton Electric Guitar valued at $1,500. The artist with the most votes will win the People’s Choice National Musicoz Award for 2007. Voting is reflected in the Musicoz Top 10 Charts.
