FREYJA He calls me.

FENRIS Freyja!

FREYJA Hark! He yearns For me!

BALDUR [Urging her away.] ’Tis Odin’s will.

FENRIS Freyja!

FREYJA He cries In pain. Hold me no longer.—Fenris!

ODIN [Entering, intercepts her path with his spear.] Stay!

FREYJA Allfather! hark his pain. Alas, poor wolf!

ODIN Poor wolf? Poor world! poor blind, precarious Reason, Beneath whose sovereign throne this horror sits, Cat-crouching to usurp it.—Fear him; go!

FENRIS Ai! ai! anarch! Freyja!