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Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar , was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem My Country is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains." Wikipedia  

✵ 1. July 1885 – 14. January 1968
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Dorothea Mackellar Quotes

“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

Source: The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar

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