Dictionary of Sydney

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My Country

An iconic and patriotic poem about Australia. The poem was first published in The Spectator in London under the title Core of My Heart. It is the second stanza which begins 'I Love a sunburnt country/ A land of sweeping plains,/ Of ragged mountain ranges,/ Of droughts and flooding rains' that is best known.

Milestone
First published
1908
Position
1904
Type