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Crofting and Land Reform |
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Crofting is still practiced in some areas of Highland Scotland although the crofters now have the option of buying their croft, and also tend to make a large proportion of money from tourism, by leasing out buildings on the croft as holiday homes. Despite the optimism of this poem, the Highlanders will never return ‘back to the land’.
Back, back to the land may the tide soon be turning,
May exiles return from the city and sea;
Once more may the fires in our ingles be burning,
And man claim his rights in this land of the free.
The clear mountain streamlet that sings throught the vale,
Is eager as ever the mill-wheels to turn,
The seedtimes come round, and the harvests ne’er fail,
While Nature is waiting the people’s return
“Scottish Life And Character”, Dobson, H.J. & Sanderson, Wm, London, 1919, p125
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