StoryTitleLong("caps", "TO CŒLIA", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "",
"To Coelia", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "",
"To Cœlia", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When, Cœlia, must my old day set, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And my young morning rise ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In beams of joy so bright as yet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ne'er bless'd a lover's eyes? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My state is more advanced than when", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I first attempted thee: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I sued to be a servant then, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But now to be made free. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I've served my time faithful and true, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Expecting to be placed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In happy freedom, as my due, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To all the joys thou hast: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ill husbandry in love is such ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A scandal to love's power, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We ought not to misspend so much ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As one poor short-lived hour. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet think not, sweet, I'm weary grown, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That I pretend such haste; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since none to surfeit e'er was known ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Before he had a taste:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My infant love could humbly wait ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When, young, it scarce knew how ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To plead; but grown to man's estate, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He is impatient now.", "") ?>
Poet("Charles Cotton", "1630–1687") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>