Quæ Genus.
"'Twere well!
If I that honour'd name could tell;
I must suppose that such a creature
Was form'd in her own way, by Nature!
That I had parents must be true;
A father and a mother too,
But who they were I never heard,
Nor has the secret yet appear'd:
They're known to Heaven,—but to me
My birth's a perfect mystery:
Though this I'm sure that I can tell—
It was not worth a miracle."