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Quotes from Core of My Heart — Dorothea Mackellar

1885–1960 Australia

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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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dorothea Mackellar (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.