Derozio: My Native Land My Native Land by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-1831) is one of the most widely read and appreciated poems composed by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio in which the love for the motherland is so strong and the longing to serve it as a true son of the soil. A Eurasian by birth, one of some mixed descent, his father was an Indo-Portuguese and his mother an Englishwoman. Having been schooled from David Drummond Dharmatala Academy, he left it do some work. His poems fond favor with John Grant’s journal and were published in various periodicals and papers. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55272/derozio-my-native-land