My Country - By Dorathea McKeller
My Country The Love Of Field & Coppice, Of Green Shaded Lanes Of Ordered Woods And Gardens Is Running Through Your Veins Strong Love Of Blue Grey Distance Brown Streams & Soft Dim Skies I Know But Cannot Share It My Love's 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 The Jewel Sea Her Beauty & Her Terror The Wild Brown Land For Me DjdjdbdndnCore Of My Heart… My Country Her Pityless Blue Sky…. When Sick A Heart Around Us… We See The Cattle Die …. But Then The Grey Clouds Gather… & We Can Bless Again…. The Drumming Of An Army….. The Steady Soaking Rain…. Core Of My Heart… My Country Land Of Rainbow Gold For Flood & Fire & Famine She Pays Us Back Threefold Over The Thirsty Paddocks, Watch, After Many Days The Filmy Veil Of Greenness That Thickens As We Gaze….. An Opal Hearted Co...