“Give me, give me God's own country! there to live and there to die”
"God's Own Country" (circa 1885)
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Thomas Bracken was an Irish-born New Zealand poet, journalist and politician. He wrote "God Defend New Zealand", one of the two national anthems of New Zealand, and was the first person to publish the phrase "God's Own Country" as applied to New Zealand. He also won the Otago Caledonian Society’s prize for poetry.
✵ 21. December 1843 – 16. February 1898
