Then let us two rise up and bid defiance

To this same order Art, not Nature, bred!

Svanhild [shaking her head].

Then were the cause for which we made alliance

Ruined, as sure as this is earth we tread.

Falk.

No, triumph waits upon two souls in unity.

To Custom’s parish-church no more we’ll wend,

Seatholders in the Philistine community.

See, Personality’s one aim and end