[397:1] First published in 1834. In Pickering's one-volume edition of the issue of 1848 the following note is printed on p. 372:—
'The fourth and last stanzas are adapted from the twelfth and last of Cotton's Chlorinda [Ode]:—
'O my Chlorinda! could'st thou see
Into the bottom of my heart,
There's such a Mine of Love for thee,
The Treasure would supply desert.
Meanwhile my Exit now draws nigh,
When, sweet Chlorinda, thou shalt see
That I have heart enough to die,
Not half enough to part with thee.
'The fifth stanza is the eleventh of Cotton's poem.'
In 1852 (p. 385) the note reads: 'The fourth and last stanzas are from Cotton's Chlorinda, with very slight alteration.'
A first draft of this adaptation is contained in one of Coleridge's Malta Notebooks:—
[I]
Made worthy by excess of Love
A wretch thro' power of Happiness,
And poor from wealth I dare not use.
[II]