... by the other Scottish poet The Great Referendum of 2014 On the eighteenth day of September, Two Thousand and Fourteen, The People of Scotland, including Children of sixteen and seventeen, Arose as one man, with many sighs, And made their way to their polling stations to exercise their Franchise By voting upon the Question, Should Scotland be an Independent Nation? Which caused many people to scratch their heads in Consternation. In the year of Sixteen Hundred and Five, When Good Queen Bess was no longer alive, She named her royal Cousin James VI of Scotland As Successor to the Throne of England; But it was not until the Act of Union of Seventeen Hundred and Seven That we had a United Kingdom, which some say was not a match made in Heaven; So that many rebellious Scots would be cruelly crushed By General Wade, who like a Torrent rushed To hush Jacobite sedition, Which in Scotland is a somewhat long-standing tradition. And now the Scottish people have been asked to choose Whether to say, "Roll over, Flora MacDonald, and tell Britannia the news." And the Caledonians have concluded their Plebiscite, Be they Canny Scot or Blatherskite; And the People of the United Kingdom know that the country North of the Border Has said "Nay" to changing the Established Order, In the year Two Thousand and Fourteen on September the eighteenth day, Which will be remembered for a very long time, as many people do say.
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