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- She saw alone
- What thou sawest not:
Siegmund I beheld.
- Bringing him doom
- I approached;
- I looked in his eyes,
- Gave ear to his words.
- I perceived the hero’s
- Bitter distress;
- Loud the lament
- Of the brave one resounded;
- Uttermost love’s
- Most terrible pang,
- Saddest of hearts
- Defying all odds—
- With my ear I heard,
- My eye beheld
That which stirred the heart in my breast
With trouble holy and strange.
- Shamed, astonished,
- Shrinking I stood.
- Then all my thought
- Was how I could serve him;
- Triumph and death
- To share with Siegmund-—
- That seemed, that only,
- The lot I could choose!
- Faithful to him
- Who taught my heart this love,
- And set me
- By the Wälsung’s side as friend—
Most faithful to him—
Thy word I disobeyed.
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