"Siegfried! Siegfried!
Our warning is true:
Flee, oh, flee from the curse!"
See p. 164
Look!—thus
Freely I fling away!
[He lifts a clod of earth from the ground, holds it over his head, and with the last words throws it behind him.
THE THREE RHINE-MAIDENS
Come, sisters!
Fly from the madman!
Though dauntless and wise
He seems to himself,
He is blind and in fetters bound fast.
[Wildly excited, they swim in wide circles close to the shore.
Oaths he swore,
And was false to his word;