How grand the human race would be <br /> If every man would wear a kilt, <br />A flirt of Tartan finery, <br /> Instead of trousers, custom built! <br />Nay, do not think I speak to joke: <br /> (You know I'm not that kind of man), <br />I am convinced that all men folk. <br /> Should wear the costume of a Clan. <br /> <br />Imagine how it's braw and clean <br /> As in the wind it flutters free; <br />And so conducive to hygiene <br /> In its sublime simplicity. <br />No fool fly-buttons to adjust,-- <br /> Wi' shanks and maybe buttocks bare; <br />Oh chiels, just take my word on trust, <br /> A bonny kilt's the only wear. <br /> <br />'Twill save a lot of siller too, <br /> (And here a canny Scotsman speaks), <br />For one good kilt will wear you through <br /> A half-a-dozen pairs of breeks. <br />And how it's healthy in the breeze! <br /> And how it swings with saucy tilt! <br />How lassies love athletic knees <br /> Below the waggle of a kilt! <br /> <br />True, I just wear one in my mind, <br /> Since sent to school by Celtic aunts, <br />When girls would flip it up behind, <br /> Until I begged for lowland pants. <br />But now none dare do that to me, <br /> And so I sing with lyric lilt,-- <br />How happier the world would be <br /> If every male would wear a kilt!<br /><br />Robert William Service<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-song-for-kilts/
