I have had a presentiment of you, have felt and expected you from the beginning.
Hence my troubled seeking all the time, hence my horror and shuddering when I discovered that I was mistaken, that it was not the one I yearned for whose image I bore secretly in my heart.

Now I see why I was so irresistibly drawn to you from the first moment I set eyes on you.

The man of my dreams stood in bodily shape before me.

Here at last was my heart's dear image in flesh and blood.

I had no need to get to know you; I knew you already.