July 6, in the morning
My angel, my all, my very self - Only a few words today and at that with pencil (with yours) -
Not till tomorrow will my lodgings be definitely determined upon - what a useless waste of time -
Why this deep sorrow when necessity speaks - can our love endure except through sacrifices,
through not demanding everything from one another; can you change the fact that you are not wholly mine,
I not wholly thine - Oh God, look out into the beauties of nature and comfort your heart with that which must be -
Love demands everything and that very justly - thus it is to me with you, and to your with me.
But you forget so easily that I must live for me and for you;
if we were wholly united you would feel the pain of it as little as I -
My journey was a fearful one; I did not reach here until 4 o'clock yesterday morning.
Lacking horses the post-coach chose another route, but what an awful one;
at the stage before the last I was warned not to travel at night; I was made fearful of a forest,
but that only made me the more eager - and I was wrong.
The coach must needs break down on the wretched road, a bottomless mud road.
Without such postilions as I had with me I should have remained stuck in the road.
Esterhazy, traveling the usual road here, had the same fate with eight horses that I had with four -
Yet I got some pleasure out of it, as I always do when I successfully overcome difficulties -
Now a quick change to things internal from things external.
We shall surely see each other soon; moreover,
today I cannot share with you the thoughts I have had during these last few days touching my own life -
If our hearts were always close together,
I would have none of these. My heart is full of so many things to say to you - ah -
there are moments when I feel that speech amounts to nothing at all -
Cheer up - remain my true, my only treasure, my all as I am yours.
The gods must send us the rest, what for us must and shall be -
Your faithful LUDWIG.
