<P> "My Country" is an iconic patriotic poem about Australia, written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885--1968) at the age of 19 while homesick in the United Kingdom . After travelling through Europe extensively with her father during her teenage years, she started writing the poem in London in 1904 and re-wrote it several times before her return to Sydney . The poem was first published in The Spectator in London on 5 September 1908 under the title "Core of My Heart". It was reprinted in many Australian newspapers, quickly becoming well known and establishing Mackellar as a poet . </P> <P> Mackellar's family owned substantial properties in the Gunnedah district of New South Wales and a property (Torryburn) in the Paterson district of the Hunter Region . The inspiration for her poems undoubtedly came from the time she spent on the rural properties as a child . The poem is believed to have been directly inspired by witnessing the breaking of a drought when she was at Torryburn; "My Country" uses imagery to describe the land after the breaking of a long drought . Of ragged mountain ranges possibly refers to the Mount Royal Ranges, and the Barrington Tops . </P> <P> To many the poem is an overtly romanticised version of "The Australian condition", as Mackellar's family were of considerable fortune and social favour . The poem reflects the romanticised and somewhat idealised reflection of a writer yearning to be taken back to Gunnedah . </P> <P> The first stanza, lesser - known, refers to England, and the fact that the vast majority of Australians of that era were of British birth or ancestry . The second stanza describes Australia and is amongst the best - known pieces of Australian poetry . </P>

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