First, let me assure you now, I love you.
Love,
unspeakable,
eternal,
with all my senses I devote to you.
A stag tormented by the noonday heat, who with its pointed antlers scrapes the earth, plunges no less grievously from the rocks to breast the foaming rapids than I am longing, now that you are mine, to steep myself in all your youthful charms.