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.
Ludwig van Beethoven