<P> MacKellar's first anthology of poems, The Closed Door, published in Australia in 1911, included the poem . The last line of the third stanza, "And ferns the warm dark soil" was originally "And ferns the crimson soil". Her second anthology, The Witch Maid & Other Verses, published in 1914, included the original version . </P> <P> A recording of "My Country" made by the radio and TV actor Leonard Teale became so popular in the 1970s that his reading of the first lines of the second stanza were often used to parody him . </P>

When was i love a sunburnt country written