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	Lalaleia! Leialalei! Heia! Heia! Ha hei! [They swim apart hither and thither, now lower, now higher, to provoke Alberich to give chase.
Alberich	Fiercely within me Passionate fires Consume and flame! Love and fury, Wild, resistless, Lash me to frenzy! So laugh and lie your fill One of you I desire, And one must yield to my yearning! [He ſtarts chaſing them with desperate energy. He climbs with terrible agility, and, springing from rock to rock, tries to catch one maiden after another. They keep eluding him with mocking laughter. He ſtumbles and falls into the abyſs, and clambers up quickly again and resumes the chase. They ſink down a little towards him; he almoſt reaches them, but falls back again, and once more tries to catch them. At laſt he pauses out of breath, and, foaming with rage, ſtretches his clenched fiſt up towards the maidens.
Alberich	If but this fist had one! [He remains speechleſs with rage gazing up­wards, when he is suddenly attracted and arreſted by the following spectacle. Through the water a light of continually increaſing brilliance breaks from above, and at a point near the top of the middle rock, kindles to a radiant and dazzling golden gleam. A magical light ſtreams from this through the waves.

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