Our Inspiration

I love a sunburnt country,

I love a sunburnt country,

A land of sweeping plains,

A land of sweeping plains,

Of rugged mountain ranges,

Of rugged mountain ranges,

Of droughts and flooding rains.

Of droughts and flooding rains.

I love her far horizons,

I love her far horizons,

I love her jewel sea,

I love her jewel sea,

Her beauty and her terror -

Her beauty and her terror -

The wide brown land for me!

The wide brown land for me!

Text by arrangement with the Licensor, the Estate of Dorothea Mackellar c/ Curtis Brown (Aust) Pty Ltd.

My Country (1904)

Dorothea Mackeller (1885-1968)