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Flosshilde Swimming up quickly.	Look to the gold! Father warned us Of such a foe.
	[Both the others follow her, and all three gather quickly round the central rock.
Alberich	You above there!
The Three Rhine-Maidens	What wouldst thou below there?
Alberich	Do I spoil sport By standing and gazing here? Dived ye but deeper, Fain the Niblung Would join in your frolic and play.
Wellgunde	He wishes to join us?
Woglinde	Is he in jest?
Alberich	Ye gleam above me So glad and fair! If one would only Glide down, how close in my arms Fondly clasped she would be!
Flosshilde	I laugh at my fears: The foe is in love.
Wellgunde	The amorous imp!
Woglinde	Let us approach him.
	[She ſinks down to the top of the rock, whose base Alberich has reached.
Alberich	Lo! one of them comes!
Woglinde	Climb up to me here!

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