| Donner
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- Oft I’ve doled out
- Giants their due:
Come, your reward is here
Waiting, full measure and more!
He swings his hammer.
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| Wotan
Stretching out his spear between the combatants.
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- Hold, thou fierce one!
- Nothing by force!
- All bonds and treaties
- My spear protects;
Spare then thy hammer’s haft!
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| Freia
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- Woe’s me! Woe’s me!
- Wotan forsakes me!
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| Fricka
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- Can such be thy thought,
- Merciless man?
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| Wotan
Turns away and sees Loge coming.
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- There comes Loge!
- Hot is thy haste
- Smoothly to settle
Thy sorry, badly-made bargain!
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| Loge
Has come up out of the valley in the background.
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- What is this bargain
- That I am blamed for?——
- The one with the giants
That thou thyself didst decide?
- O’er hill and o’er hollow
- Drives me my whim;
- House and hearth
- I do not crave.
- Donner and Froh,
They dream but of roof and room:
- Wedding, must have
A home in which to dwell,
- A stately hall,
- A fortress fast.
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