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Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, full of the richness of NE Scots dialect and the complex realities of rural life a bare 100 years ago.
And Rabbie Burn's poem urging social equality: "A Man's A Man For A' That" It was chosen for the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, when Scots reclaimed a modicum of self-governance again. https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=hudNoXsUj0o
Words are here: https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/a-mans-a-man-for-a-that
Then let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a’ that) That Sense and Worth o’er a’ the earth, Shall bear the gree an a’ that. For a’ that, an a’ that, It’s coming yet for a’ that, That man to man, the world, o’er, Shall brithers be for a’ that.