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Wednesday, 25 March 2009

The poem is dedicated to the memory of Peter Marsh, who was born in Blantyre in 1926, and recently passed away in Devon. He moved to Kenya in 1951 and served East African Railways and Harbours as an engineer in various capacities, latterly as Acting Chief Civil Engineer, until he left in 1976. He loved Kenya as his own.

My Country from verses 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!

 

   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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