‘Rhinegold!
Purest gold!
O would that thy light
Waved in the waters below!
Unfailing faith
Is found in the deep,
While above, in delight,
Faintness and falsehood abide!’
[ 1 ] See the author's ‘Myths of Northern Lands’ and ‘Legends of the Rhine.’
[ 2 ] All the quotations in the ‘Ring’ have been taken either from Dippold's or Forman's admirable translations.
BRUNHILDE DISCOVERING SIEGMUND AND SIEGLINDE.
THE WALKYRIE.
Wotan—made secretly uneasy by Erda's dark prediction that
‘Nothing that is ends not;
A day of gloom
Dawns for the gods;—
Be ruled and waive from the ring’—