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Mackellar's notebook with first two verses "My Country" is a poem written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) at the age of 19 about her love of the Australian landscape. . After travelling through Europe extensively with her father during her teenage years, she started writing the poem in London in 1904 [1] and re-wrote it several times before her return to S
"I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a British patriotic hymn, created in 1921 when music by Gustav Holst had a poem by Sir Cecil Spring Rice set to it. The music originated as a wordless melody, which Holst later named " Thaxted ", taken from the "Jupiter" movement of Holst's 1917 suite The Planets .
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as simply "America", is an American patriotic song, the lyrics of which were written by Samuel Francis Smith. [2] The song served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States (along with songs like "Hail, Columbia") before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931. [3]
Mackellar dressed as one of the Graces for Mrs. T.H. Kelly's Italian Red Cross Day tableaux at the Palace Theatre, 20 June 1918. The third child and only daughter of physician and parliamentarian Sir Charles Mackellar and his wife Marion Mackellar (née Buckland), the daughter of Thomas Buckland, she was born in the family home Dunara at Point Piper, Sydney, Australia in 1885.
My Country" is a poem about Australia written by Dorothea Mackellar. My Country may also refer to: My Country: The New Age, a 2019 South Korean television series; My Country, an Australian film; My Country, a Brazilian drama film
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” — John F. Kennedy “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country ...
A sketch of Samuel Francis Smith from a life sketch in The Express. While a student at Andover Theological Seminary, Smith gave Lowell Mason lyrics he had written and the song was first performed in public on July 4, 1831, at a children's Independence Day celebration at Park Street Church in Boston. [1]
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