Did you not read in my eyes
What impetuously your lips have been asking since yesterday?
I discern in you a being that was created exactly as I,
And the dreary twilight of my existence gives way to light;
With a quiet hand in a dark cloud
Affection secretly weaves her ties.

Receive, you whom I longed for, this tear of joy
In gratitude that you revealed heaven to me!
Your image alone once enticed Psyche
Into the valley of the choirs of shades;
Thus from the wild coast of Tauris
Did Orestes rescue his shrine into a better land.

You whom from a thousand others I boldly choose,
Oh creator of the hope-filled time of blossoms!
In this kiss receive my entire soul,
In this ring, the pledge of eternity;
Upon the starry heavens the holy word stands in flaming letters:
The unity of our spirits resounds unendingly.