Occasionally by Franklin P. Adams — Read

Now and then there's a couple whose conjugal life / Is happy as happy can be; / Now and then there's a man who believes that his wife / Is the One Unsurpassable She; / There are doubtless in England a great many folks / Whose humour is airy and sage; / But there never is one in American jokes / Or on the American stage

Now and then there's an auto that doesn't break down, / Or an angler who catches some fish; / Now and then there's a pretty society gown / Or a girl that breaks never a dish; / There is haply a Croesus who isn't a hoax. / Or a jest that's not hoary with age; / But there never is one in American jokes / Or on the American stage.

Now and then there's a poet with closely cropped hair, / Or a sporting man quiet in dress; / Now and then there's a lady from Boston who's fair, / Now and then there's a fetterless press; / Now and then there's a laugh that a jester may coax, / A librettist may put on his page -- / But they're terribly rare in American jokes, / And -- oh, the American stage!