A Suggested Campaign Song

By 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.”