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!

— Dorothea Mackellar Core of My Heart (1908)

Notes from Wikiquote

The Spectator (5 September 1908), The Closed Door (1911), The Witch Maid, and Other Verses (1914)