To Prince Henry of Battenberg.
Two things, no doubt, make day of married life,
Which else, with all its cares and births and deaths,
Were utter mis’ry! One a loving wife,
Who brightens all the home, whose tender eyes
Beam o’er the household world—and one,
The secondary one, of needful cash,
Which from far Germany has drawn thee, child,
To move in English spheres. What Prince would keep
In the mean penury of single life