Talk:My Country

Answer?
Does anyone know the reason why the lyric in the third verse was changed in The Closed Door?ROxBo 04:39, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Singular?/plural? 2008.02.9 I note, in the copy shown of her handwriting at the end of the second line of 'My country', that Dorothea Mackellar appears to have written 'lane' followed by a full stop or comma. This appears in the printed version as 'lanes,'.

Comparing her later lines and allowing for scanning difficulties, it could also be said that she has written 'lanes' with no following punctuation. However, the printed version has the plural plus a comma. In the written copy she doesn't appear to have written both an 's' and a comma/fullstop. So, did she write 'lanes', or was it edited in that form into the printed text?

In the line above she has use the singular for 'field' and 'coppice' and it would seem that the singular for 'lane' is more appropriate (to me!) and she does appear to have put a comma at the end of the second line of subsequent verses, plural or not.

Perhaps this has been resolved by seeing greater clarity in the original notebook. Perhaps not.

Any comments? Dsso. – — … ° ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ± − × ÷ ← → · § Dsso (talk) 02:03, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Any reason why the poem is not included?120.16.153.99 (talk) 05:58, 29 April 2018 (UTC)MBG

Age
The website (http://www.dorotheamackellar.com.au/) says she was 22, not the 19 cited here. 120.16.153.99 (talk) 06:07, 29 April 2018 (UTC)MBG