(July 4, 1812, to Count Brunswick, whom he is urging to make a tour with
him, probably to Teplitz.)
247. “Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men.
At my age I need a certain uniformity and equableness of life; can such
exist in our relationship?”
(June 7, 1800 (?), to the “Immortal Beloved.”)
248. “O Providence! vouchsafe me one day of pure joy! Long has the echo
of perfect felicity been absent from my heart. When O, when, O Thou
Divine One, shall I feel it again in nature’s temple and man’s? Never?
Ah! that would be too hard!”
(Conclusion of the Heiligenstadt Will.)