Good morning, on July 7
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