Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us -
   I can live only wholly with you or not at all -
   Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits -
   Yes, unhappily it must be so -
   You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never -
   Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves.
   And yet my life in V is now a wretched life -
   Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men -
   At my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection?
   My angel, I have just been told that the mailcoach goes every day - therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the letter at once -
   Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together -

   Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell.
   Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
   
    ever thine
    ever mine
    ever ours