The love of field and coppice
\nOf green and shaded lanes,
\nOf ordered woods and gardens
\nIs running in your veins.
\nStrong love of grey-blue distance,
\nBrown streams and soft, dim skies
\nI know, but cannot share it,
\nMy love is otherwise.<\/p>\n
I love a sunburnt country,
\nA land of sweeping plains,
\nOf ragged mountain ranges,
\nOf droughts and flooding rains.
\nI love her far horizons,
\nI love her jewel-sea,
\nHer beauty and her terror
\nThe wide brown land for me!<\/p>\n
The stark white ring-barked forests,
\nAll tragic to the moon,
\nThe sapphire-misted mountains,
\nThe hot gold hush of noon,
\nGreen tangle of the brushes
\nWhere lithe lianas coil,
\nAnd orchids deck the tree-tops,
\nAnd ferns the warm dark soil.<\/p>\n
Core of my heart, my country!
\nHer pitiless blue sky,
\nWhen, sick at heart, around us
\nWe see the cattle die
\nBut then the grey clouds gather,
\nAnd we can bless again
\nThe drumming of an army,
\nThe steady soaking rain.<\/p>\n
Core of my heart, my country!
\nLand of the rainbow gold,
\nFor flood and fire and famine
\nShe pays us back threefold.
\nOver the thirsty paddocks,
\nWatch, after many days,
\nThe filmy veil of greenness
\nThat thickens as we gaze \u2026<\/p>\n
An opal-hearted country,
\nA wilful, lavish land
\nAll you who have not loved her,
\nYou will not understand
\nthough Earth holds many splendours,
\nWherever I may die,
\nI know to what brown country
\nMy homing thoughts will fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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