A Lear of the Steppes, etc.

FAUST A STORY IN NINE LETTERS (continued 2)

Constance Garnett translation

Good-bye! In old days I would have added, be happy; now I say to you, try to live, it is not so easy as it seems. Think of me, not in hours of sorrow, but in hours of contemplation, and keep in your heart the image of Vera in all its pure stainlessness.… Once more, good-bye!—Yours, P. B.

1855.

ACIA

Illustration from A Lear of the Steppes, etc.

Raphael’s Galatea in the Farnesino.

(Villa Chigi.)