| Brünnhilde
Breathleſs.
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- Shield me and help
- In dire distress !
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| The Valkyries
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- Whence rodest thou hither,
- Hasting so hard?
Thus ride they only who flee.
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| Brünnhilde
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- I flee for the first time
- And am pursued:
Warfather follows close.
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| The Valkyries
Terribly alarmed.
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- Hast thou gone crazy?
- Speak to us! What?
- Pursued by Warfather ?
- Flying from him?
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| Brünnhilde
Turns and looks out anxiously, then comes back.
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- O sisters, spy
- From the rocky peak!
- Look north and tell me
- If Warfather nears!
[Ortlinde and Waltraute spring up the peak to the look-out. - Quick! Is he in sight ?
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| Ortlinde
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- A storm from the north
- Is nearing.
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| Waltraute
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- Darkly the clouds
- Congregate there.
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| The Valkyries
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- Warfather, riding
- His sacred steed, comes!
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| Brünnhilde
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- The wrathful hunter,
- He rides from the north;
He nears, he nears, in fury!
- Save this woman!
- Sisters your help!
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