Smiles seem’d around his lips to play!
Still in the air his accents are,
And echo through each passing car,
Diogenes!
From Diogenes, February 4, 1854.
Diogenes was a comic paper, somewhat resembling Punch in its general features. It contained many good parodies, principally in reference to the Crimean War.
A pesky night was coming down,
As a young man pass’d through a rustic town;
And in his hand he clutch’d a flag,