On Scottish Independence
Scotland Free, Now and Forever!
There’s
a pride that goes beyond the name of fair trade, practicality, and the union of
economic convenience—there is a pride rooted in the land, in Scottish soil,
deeper than the deepest well of wealth, older than the oldest banks, more
sacred than cash machines--
There is entrusted to us an honored, measured pride that has no price upon it—
a
pride built up in equal measure by man and woman, adult and child, old and
young alike / paid for by the blood of our honor’d warrior heroes gone “auld
land syne” as Rabbie would sing, to their final place of resting--
a pride paid for by the countless generations of hard lives and sublime lovers raised in these hills and vales and dells;
interwoven with the land, inseparable from the land,
imperishable,
invincible, and unvanquished in inner spirit!
A pride that defines and describes a unique people with the greatest heart and most generous soul of all the world’s peoples!
As for the coming Devolution, I vote “Aye!” not only for myself . . . but for all those hallow’d ancestors who gave their lives to make our Scottish independence viable!
