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