Charged with their storms I will gather,
And sweep the blue heavens clean.
[Donner mounts a high rock on the edge of the precipice, and swings his hammer; during what follows the miſts gather round him.
Hey da! Hey da! Hey do!
To me, O ye mists!
Ye vapours, to me!
Donner, your lord,
Summons his hosts!
[He swings his hammer.
To my hammer’s swing
Hitherward sweep
Vapours and fogs!
Hovering mists!
Donner, your lord, summons his hosts!
Hey da! Hey da! Hey do!
[Donner disappears completely in a thundercloud which has been growing darker and denser. The ſtroke o f his hammer is heard falling heavily on the rock. A vivid flaſh o f lightning comes from the cloud, followed by a loud clap of thunder. Froh has also disappeared in the cloud.
Donner
Inviſible.
Brother, to me!
Show them the way by the bridge!
[Suddenly the clouds roll away. Donner and Froh become viſible. A rainbow of dazzling radiance ſtretches from their feet acroſs the valley to the caſtle, which is gleaming in the light of the setting sun.
Froh
Who, with outſtretched hand, indicates to the Gods that the bridge is the way acroſs the valley.
Lo, light, yet securely,
Leads the bridge to your halls.
Undaunted tread =;
Without danger the road!
[Wotan and the other Gods ſtand speechleſsly loſt in contemplation of the glorious fight.
