You dear, splendid man! How can I be unhappy, when I have attained the supreme happiness of possessing such a friend, of participating in such love? Oh, my Franz! could we but live always together! Or is the song to be right after all: "Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rath, dass man vom Liebsten, was man hat, muss scheiden"?
Farewell; tomorrow I shall write about other things. A thousand greetings!
Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #4234, Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2, No. 254