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	Keep it with care; [Grimly. From my curse none shall escape! [He vanishes quickly through the cleft. The thick miſt in the foreground gradually clears away.
Loge	Hadst thou ears For his fond farewell?
Wotan	Grudge him not vent to his spleen!
Loſt in contemplation of the ring.[It keeps growing lighter.
Loge Looking to the right.	Fasolt and Fafner Come from afar Bringing Freia again. [Through the vanishing miſt Donner, Froh, and Fricka appear, and haſten towards the foreground.
Froh	The giants return.
Donner	Be greeted, brother!
Fricka Anxiously to Wotan.	Dost bring joyful tidings?
Loge Pointing to the hoard.	By fraud and by force We have prevailed: There Freia’s ransom lies.
Donner	From the giant’s grasp Freed comes the fair one.
Froh	How sweetly the air Fans us again! Balmy delights Steal soft through each sense! Sad, forlorn had our lot been, For ever severed from her

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