" Juvenal, it may be remembered, gives a further allusion to tree descent in his sixth satire: "For when the world was new, the race that broke Unfathered, from the soil or opening oak, Lived most unlike the men of later times.

He, of all men, seems to be the native New-Englander, as much so as the oak, the granite ledge, our best sample of an indigenous American, untouched by the Old Country, unless he came down from Thor, the Northman; as yet unfathered by any, and a nondescript in the books of natural history.

Imaginationhere the Power so called Through sad incompetence of human speech, That awful Power rose from the mind's abyss Like an unfathered vapour that enwraps, 595 At once, some lonely traveller.