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 thin
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ever mine
...
ever ours...