Very respectfully yours,
F. Liszt
Budapest, March 27th, 1878
From the middle of April till the end of July I remain in Weimar.
225. To Edmund von Mihalovich
Very dear Friend,
I most sincerely feel with you in your grief. "Non ignara mali"…for I too have wept at the grave of my mother.
A sad but well-written book, "Stello" ("Consultations of the black doctor"), depicts the sufferings and death of three young poets,—Millevoye, Andre Chenier, Chatterton,—gathered home before they had acquired glory here below.
In these moving pages of Alfred de Vigny he asks, "What is one to think of a world which one enters with the hope of seeing one's father and mother die?"…Prayer alone can answer this question. Let us then pray our heavenly Father that His Will may be done on earth as it is in heaven, and that the work of our life may be ever conformed to the Divine Will.
Ever yours,