And no avenging thunder will find out,

Whom the blue storm-cloud, scudding up the sky

On wings of tempest, never can come nigh?

Falk.

The others split their souls on scattered ends:

Thy single love my being comprehends.

They’re hoarse with yelling in life’s Babel din:

I in this quiet shelter fold thee in.

Svanhild.

But if love, notwithstanding, should decay,