Immortal Beloved

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?
...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 1770-1827, letter to His Unsterbliche Geliebte (Immortal Beloved) [ poss. summer of 1812]