Opera Stories from Wagner

Florence Akin

Capitolo 4


  "Greet to thee! Greet to thee!
  Brighter treasure!
  Rhine-gold! Rhine-gold!
  Bella approves!

  "Greet to thee! Greet to thee!
  Out of the night!
  Rhine-gold! Rhine-gold!
  Aroused so bright!"


THE THEFT

He/she anchors Alberich it was standing and it fixed the gold.

"What is it?" he gasped. "What is it?"

His/her Rhine-daughters shouted again to him:--

  "I Heigh-have! and I heigh-have!
  Dear small little devil of the pain,
  Give back with us, gives back with us!
  I Heigh-have and I heigh-have!"

But Alberich not laughed with them.

He would not take his/her eyes by the gold.

"What", says the young girl, "it is our Rhine-gold."

"A very beautiful toy that is", said Alberich.

"Yes", he/she answered the happy-go-lucky sisters, "it is magic gold. Who shapes this
gold in a ring will have every power on the earth, safe love."

Alberich murmured to him:  What I would appreciate love if I have all the
gold that I want?"

Then he jumped on the slippery stone and it grabbed the gold. With one
wild jump under which he has dipped in the depths.

Down, he went down to his/her deep kingdom, dark, while grabbing I fast the
precious gold and murmuring:--

"Now all the earth is mine. It is mine every mine. I will now dominate the
world."

Alberich I shock and poor! He didn't know what the best things in this
world is the things that you/he/she cannot buy gold.

The power of love is greater than the gold power.

The young girl shouted and they shouted:  The "our gold! Our gold! Our jewel
gold!"

Too late! Far, far under, they heard a laughter, the raw ill-mannered laughter of
Alberich, the dwarf.


THE SAD RHINE-DAUGHTERS

Later this, when his/her Rhine-daughters came to the stone where the gold had
state, they could not sing their happy song.

Now their faces were very sad, and they said:  "Oh, because it made Alberich
do you steal our beautiful gold? You/he/she cannot do him/it happy, for any never
is really happy who doesn't know love."

They often sat on the stones in the twilight of the evening and they cried as if
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