; first it was work, then a number of interruptions, and finally poor health that again and again kept me from answering, because i wanted my answer to come to you out of peaceful and happy days. now i feel somewhat better again (the beginning of spring with its moody, bad-tempered transitions was hard to bear here too) and once again, dear mr. kappus, i can greet you and talk to you (which i do with real pleasure) about this and that in response to your letter, as well as i can.

　　you see: i have copied out your sonnet, because i found that it is lovely and simple and born in the shape that it moves in with such quiet decorum. it is the best poem of yours that you have let me read. and now i am giving you this copy because i know that it is important and full of new experience to rediscover a work of one's own in someone else's handwriting. read the poem as if you had never seen it before, and you will feel in your innermost being how very much it is your own.

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