“Behold, overlong thou mournest, Lady, for Siegfried dead.
Sure proof shall of Gunther be given that he had no part in his death.
Yet for him folk hear thee mourning evermore with passionate breath.”
She said: “Him no man accuseth: it was Hagen who struck the blow.
Where only my lord could be wounded through me, through me did he know!
Whence should I have had misgivings of the hate unto him that he bare?
Else,” cried the Queen, “I had guarded my lips with jealous care
From the horror of such betrayal of my lord’s beloved life,
And had had no cause for weeping—oh wretched, wretched wife!
Never will I forgive him who wrought that dastard deed!”