| The Valkyries
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- Hence with the woman;
- Here she is lost:
- The Valkyries dare not
- Shield her from doom!
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| Sieglinde
On her knees before Brünnhilde.
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- Save me, O maid!
- Rescue the mother
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| Brünnhilde
Raises Sieglinde with sudden resolve.
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- Away then, and swiftly!
- Alone thou shalt fly.
I—stay in thy stead,
Victim of Wotan’s anger.
- I will hold here
- The God in his wrath,
Till I know thee past reach of his rage.
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| Sieglinde
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- Say, whither shall my flight be?
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| Brünnhilde
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- Which of you, sisters,
- Eastward has journeyed?
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| Siegrune
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- A forest stretches
- Far in the east;
- The Nibelung’s hoard
By Fafner thither was borne.
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| Schwertleite
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- There as a dread
- Dragon he sojourns,
- And in a cave
Keeps watch over Alberich’s ring.
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| Grimgerde
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- ’Tis uncanny there
- For a woman’s home.
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| Brünnhilde
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And yet from Wotan’s wrath
Shelter sure were the wood;
- For he both fears
- And keeps far from the place.
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