Frau Cosima in the best humour,
And no one shall call it a rumour:
For she has a good man,
And compose well he can.
So her faithful memento
To the Heckels she's sent O!
Mannheim poem,
by the author of the Flying Dutchman
without cuts.
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 33