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Woglinde	Look, sisters! The wakener laughs to the deep.
Wellgunde	Through the billows green The blissful slumberer greets.
Flosshilde	He kisses the eyelid, Making it open; Bathed in splendour, Behold it smiles, Sending, like a star, Gleaming light through the waves.
The Three Rhine-Maidens Swimming gracefully round the cliff together.	Heia jaheia! Heia jaheia! Wallala la la la leia jahei! Rhinegold! Rhinegold! Radiant delight, How glorious and glad thy smile, Over the water Shooting effulgence afar! Heia jaheia! Heia jaheia! Waken, friend! Wake in joy! That we may please thee, Merry we’ll play, Waters afire, Billows aflame, As, blissfully bathing, Dancing and singing, We dive and encircle thy bed! Rhinegold! Rhinegold! Heia jaheia!

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