5 JANUARY 1895, Page 25

POETRY.

BIRTH-DAY AND WEDDING-DAY.

(SUGGESTED BY MARTIAL, IX. 53.)

On happy day that gave me this fair life !

Oh happier day that gave me thee, sweet wife !

I know not which would more unlovely be,—

Not to have lived, or lived and not with thee.

E. S. SHUCKHURGH.