We've paid the price in blood, and for a lang time the price in siller will be kept in our minds.

We'll ha' nae choice aboot luxury, maist of us.

And that'll be a rare gude thing.
Things! Things! It's sae easy for them to rule us.

We live up to them.
We act as if they owned us, and a' the time it's we who own them, and that we maun not forget.

And we grow to think that a'thing we've become used to is something we can no do wi'oot.