My Country
and my edit to Dorothea MacKeller’s poem.
When the snows fall, adding a different flavour to the natural beauty of Yaouk Valley, it makes me want to edit the second verse of Dorothea Mackeller’s My Country, and substitute the word ‘snowy’ in place of ‘ragged’. Perhaps Dorothea never visited the Australian alpine region during winter before she wrote her often quoted poem.
The following four photos were taken in the valley on Wednesday 26th June 2025.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged snowy 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.
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