That his swinging tail may not touch me,
Warily then I must watch.
But answer me this:
Has the brute a heart?
MIME
A pitiless, cruel heart.
SIEGFRIED
It lies, however,
Where all hearts lie,
Brute and human alike?
MIME
Of course! There, boy,
The dragon's lies too.
At last thou beginnest to fear?
SIEGFRIED
[Who till now has been lying indolently stretched out, sits up suddenly.