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The Valkyrie

So fleet that I lagged behind:

Through wood and field,
Over cliff and scaur,
Voiceless, silent,
Speeding along,

Thy foot stopped for no call.

[Sieglinde ſtares wildly before her.
Tarry a while!
Say but a word,

Ending this speechless dread!

See, thy brother
Holds thee, his bride:

Siegmund’s comrade art thou!

Sieglinde
Gazes into his eyes with growing rapture, throws her arms paſſionately round his neck and remains so for some time. She then ſtarts up in wild terror.
Away! Away!
Fly the profaned one!
Unholy
The clasp of her arm;
In shame, dishonoured,
This body died.
Fling it from thee,
Flee from the corpse

The winds scatter her dust——
The foul one who loved one so fair!
When in his loving embrace
She rested in rapture pure,
And all the love of the man
Was hers who loved him alone——

When on holiest height,
When bliss was at sweetest,
And sense and soul
Were steeped in delight,
Hatred and loathing
Of hideous dishonour
Shook the disgraced one,
Filled her with fear——

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