The song was 'To Anacreon in Heaven' which was an English
drinking song for the Anacreontic Society of London.
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An anacreontic is a short poetic work concerning love and wine,
in a specific meter and popularized by the Greek poet Anacreon, who
lived during the 6th and 5th centuries BCE.
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The Anacreontic Song
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The Anacreontic Song written by John Stafford Smith