Oh pshaw, on Sat 09 Dec 2006 05:17:31a, Bigbazza meant to say...

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> "Jen" > wrote in message
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>> "Bigbazza" > wrote in message
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>>> 'My Country'....
>>>
>>> The love of field and coppice,
>>> Of green and shaded lanes,
>>> Of ordered woods and gardens
>>> Is running in your veins;
>>> Strong love of grey-blue distance
>>> Brown streams and soft dim skies -
>>> I know but cannot share it,
>>> My love is otherwise.
>>>
>>>
>>> I love a sunburnt country,
>>> A land of sweeping plains,
>>> Of ragged mountain ranges,
>>> Of droughts and flooding rains.
>>> I love her far horizons,
>>> I love her jewel-sea,
>>> Her beauty and her terror-
>>> This wide brown land for me.
>>>
>>>
>>> The stark white ring-barked forests,
>>> All tragic to the moon,
>>> The sapphire misted mountains,
>>> The hot gold hush of noon,
>>> Green tangle of the brushes
>>> Where lithe lianas coil,
>>> And orchids deck the tree-tops,
>>> And ferns the warm dark soil.
>>>
>>>
>>> Core of my heart, my country!
>>> Her pitiless blue sky,
>>> When sick at heart around us
>>> We watch the cattle die -
>>> But then the grey clouds gather,
>>> And we can bless again
>>> The drumming of an army,
>>> The steady soaking rain.
>>>
>>>
>>> Core of my heart, my country!
>>> Land of the rainbow gold,
>>> For flood and fire and famine
>>> She pays us back threefold.
>>> Over the thirsty paddocks
>>> Watch, after many days,
>>> The filmy veil of greenness
>>> That thickens as we gaze
>>>
>>>
>>> An opal hearted country,
>>> A wilful, lavish land-
>>> All you who have not loved her,
>>> You will not understand -
>>> Though earth holds many splendours,
>>> Wherever I may die,
>>> I know to what brown country
>>> My homing thoughts will fly.
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>> I've never heard the whole poem. It is apt.
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>> Jen
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> What is 'apt'....Jen ? Do you like it..It was one that I was also
> taught in school many years ago..
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appropriate

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Wayne Boatwright
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