Page:Fifes and Drums, Poems of America at War, Vigilantes, 1917.djvu/90

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THE ROUNDABOUT COMMITTEE AND THE CIRCUMLOCUTION BOARD

A Nation went to war against a rather ruthless foe;
It hadn't any army, so it wondered who would go
To do the deeds of valor which the crisis did require,
To help the French to take the trench and do it under fire.

So Congress got together and the Senate did the same
To raise a million soldiers who would put the foe to shame,

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