Two quotes

From Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, arguably the greatest 20th century Scots writer. He died  on 7th Ferbruary 1935 and was born on 13th February 1901 in an Aberdeenshire croft house probably not unlike this one.

 With them we may say there died a thing older than themselves, these were the Last of the Peasants, the last of the old Scots folk. A new generation comes up that will know them not, except as a memory in a song....

 You canna bring the birds back again to the trees, 
Nor set the fallen blossoms free, 
But gather the green buds of the branch and sing when the rain is over about the tree