O simple shoe that I adore
(the product of El Salvadore),
O Yankee child of Norse descent
(and recent offshore resident) -
Accept these lines, would they were better,
to eulogise your well-loved leather -

Beef-roll'd, tasselled, pure plain penny -
the forms you take are not too many.
A shoe wardrobe, at small expense,
a man may build in your demense.
O Wilton, Maine's most favoured son!
O pavement-pounding paragon!

O shoe of ease!
O shoe of grace!!
And master of the footwear race.
A shoe which, laceless, greets the foot
to walk around the neighbourhood.
A shoe to wear where ere you go -
Hurrah! for G.H. Bass and Co.