Arthur Guiterman

[3] An example of his humour is a poem that talks about modern progress, with rhyming couplets such as "First dentistry was painless;/Then bicycles were chainless".

It ends on a more telling note: New motor roads are dustless, The latest steel is rustless, Our tennis courts are sodless, Our new religions—godless.

Another Guiterman poem, "On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness", illustrates the philosophy also incorporated into his humorous rhymes:[4] The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls Of mastodons, are billiard balls.

[a] The Cincinnati, merry and chatty, dangle their badges and pendants; but haughty and proud, disdaining the crowd, brood the Mayflower descendants.

He also notably wrote the libretto for Walter Damrosch's The Man Without a Country which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on May 12, 1937.