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1874–1942

A Suggested Campaign Song

Alice Duer Miller

We are waging — can you doubt it? A campaign so calm and still No one knows a thing about it, And we hope they never will.

No one knows What we oppose, And we hope they never will. We are ladylike and quiet,

Here a whisper — there a hint; Never speeches, bands or riot, Nothing suitable for print. No one knows

What we oppose, For we never speak for print. Sometimes in profound seclusion, In some far ( but homelike ) spot,

We will make a dark allusion: “We're opposed to you-know-what.” No one knows What we oppose,

For we call it “You-Know-What.”

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