(for Expo 67)

 We travel where ever mankind reigns
 and find good men in all the worlds domains
 and recognize them as a kind of Danes.

Today’s grook is not as polished or clever as most of Hein’s work, but I think it is all the funnier for that. This is the humour of the utterly simple, a thoroughly timeworn idea whose sole claim to funniness is that it rhymes and scans. On the surface, not the world’s greatest grook, yet Hein has nailed the sentiment and tone so precisely, and with such perfect timing, that it made me laugh out loud where many of his cleverer poems merely raised a smile of appreciation.

— Martin