That night a whisper through the encampment went,
Jenkins was carried, drunk, unto his tent.
Diogenes, 1853.
But one of the most humorous parodies in the language, which was also founded upon Darwin’s poem, appeared in The Anti-Jacobin, it was entitled
The Loves of the Triangles.
A Mathematical and Philosophical Poem,
Inscribed to Dr. Darwin.
Stay your rude steps, or e’er your feet invade
The Muses’ haunts, ye sons of War and Trade!