A master of simple, solid, apoetical, reportorial English.

Attic and cellar, squalid stews and basement, One swarming hive A-sweat upstrive; […]

In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.

Miss Buddulph's answer […] is not a bad one, although you perhaps may think it too acknowledging for the female character.