Resign all your plans of hate and vengeance! Cast thoughts of anger from you! You have lived and labored for your native land long enough.

Now, my love, dismiss hatred from your heart, and yield it to love! Renounce vengeance and allow yourself happiness! You say that you love me--give me a proof of it, a divine, beautiful proof! Let us fly, my beloved one, fly from this world of falsehood, treachery, hate, and anger, to conceal ourselves in a quiet corner of the earth, where no one knows us, where the noise of the world does not penetrate, where we shall learn nothing more of its dissensions and wars, where only love and peace will dwell with us; where, clasped in each other's embrace, we can rest on Nature's bosom and receive from her healing for all our wounds, comfort for all our losses.

Oh, let us fly, for I know well that, so long as you are here--here in this world of strife and intrigue--you will not be mine; you cannot wrench yourself away from the numerous relations which hold and bind you, draw you into their perilous circle.

Give them up.

Let us rend these bonds which fetter you and will drag you to destruction.