| Fricka
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- While thou rejoicest,
- Joyless am I.
- Thou hast thy hall;
- My heart fears for Freia,
Heedless one, hast thou forgotten
The price that was to be paid?
- The work is finished,
- And forfeit the pledge:
Hast thou then no care for the cost?
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| Wotan
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My bargain well I remember
With them who built the abode,
- ’Twas a pact tamed them,
- The obstinate race,
- So that this hallowed
- Hall they have built me,
It stands—the strong ones’ doing:—
Fret not thou, counting the cost.
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| Fricka
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O laughing, insolent lightness!
Mirth how cruel and callous!
Had I but known of thy pact,
The trick had never been played;
- But far from your counsels
- Ye men kept the women,
That, deaf to us and in peace
Alone ye might deal with the giants,
- So without shame
- Ye promised them Freia,
Freia, my beautiful sister,
Proud of playing the thief,
- What remains holy
- Or precious to men
Once grown greedy of might?
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