"I grieve for Thee, my silvery one.
"And my thoughts fly to Thee like eagles.
"For heretofore there was imbedded in my strength a part of human happiness but there was not in it my own happiness.
"Now Thou suddenly glidest before my eyes like a light, and through my ears like music, and hast filled my bosom with a yearning for things I had not known before, and hast filled me with Thine own indispensable quintessence and a consciousness of my happiness.
"Therefore I loved Thee the same night when I beheld Thee and heard Thee for the first time.
"Henceforth, though Thou are not near me, I am with Thee and will follow wherever Thou wilt be.
"For Thou art necessary to my existence and I am to Thee, in order to resuscitate Thee.
"In order to snatch Thee from destruction; from amidst those who are about to die.
"In order to surrender Thee to the great idea, and the exalted, and the light, and the living hosts who suffer from a dearth of bread and music.
"Thee and Thy music.