Excerpt from An Essay on the Star Spangled Banner and National Songs May our club flourish happy, united and free; And long may the Sons of Anacreon entwine The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus' Vine. We have here the fact that the song was written for a musical club, called the Sons of Anacreon. Of this club I can find no other mention. With a general resemblance to the poetry of Moore, there are sentences that have not his choice English, as for instance, the line above, May our club flourish happy, united and ...
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Excerpt from An Essay on the Star Spangled Banner and National Songs May our club flourish happy, united and free; And long may the Sons of Anacreon entwine The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus' Vine. We have here the fact that the song was written for a musical club, called the Sons of Anacreon. Of this club I can find no other mention. With a general resemblance to the poetry of Moore, there are sentences that have not his choice English, as for instance, the line above, May our club flourish happy, united and free, which is more like the language of the republican cotemporaries of Robert Treat Paine, than the verses of the wits of the earlier time of the first Georges or of Queen Anne, to whom the song has vaguely been attributed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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