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KB

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Just about to hit the sack but tomorrow (as all us Aussie know) is not just CNY but also Australia Day.

A little patriotic poem to leave you with...

My Country

by Dorothea-Mackellar

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 -

The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest

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 see 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.

To all my Aussie chums, fire up the BBQ, throw on some lamb chops, crack open a VB and make Aussie Day 2009 a good one.

Ken

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Ken,

Will certainly be around the BBQ, cold tinny or 3 in hand.

(Actually you know my full plans :p )

Am honoured and so proud, to live in this great country, and think this is the best quick look at this amazing place.

Please, all you friends of RWG, take the time for a sneak peek, at this land....Australia.

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dluddy: a little help for Ya!

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Congratulations! Enjoy the celebrations, lads. If I couldn't live in the land of ice and snow I'd sure take a long look down under.

Exactly how close are you to Antarctica? :Jumpy:

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I really loved your country on my first visit last March. My relatives made me promise to return so we will. Have a good day and congrats, you should be proud of your country. The USA is always one of your best friends, you can count on us to always be there when we need you! Hah! :D

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