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[Anonymous No.23091940]

In vain sought I, and see now full well:
in the world's wide ring nought is so rich
that a man will take it as price
for woman's value and delight!
Where life ever is moving,
in water, earth and air,
much sought I, asking of all men,
where force doth but stir, and life hath
beginning:
what among men more mighty seems,
than woman's value and delight?
But where life ever is moving,
still scorned alone was my questioning craft:
in water, earth and air,
none will forgo wife and love.

[Anonymous No.23092980]

He understood more than anyone else what Life was about.

[Anonymous No.23093299]

>>23091940
Yeah, the ape instinct of reproduction reings the world.

[Anonymous No.23094746]

Scene Two

An open space on a mountain height
(The dawning day lights up with growing bright-
ness a castle with glittering pinnacles, which stands on the top of a cliff in the background. Between this cliff and the foreground, a deep valley through which the Rhine flows is supposed.
Wotan and Fricka asleep.)
(The castle has become quite visible. Fricka
awakes: her gaze falls on the castle.)
...
(Wotan awakes and raises himself a little. His eyes are at once fixed by the view of the castle.)
...
(Freia enters, as if in hasty flight.)
...
(Fasolt and Fafner, both of gigantic stature, armed with strong clubs, enter.)
...
(Fafner and Fasolt press toward Freia. Froh and Donner enter in haste.)
...
(Wotan turns away and sees Loge coming.)

Wotan
There is Loge!
Such is thy haste bargains to mend that
were struck by thy evil counsel?

Loge
How?
..,
Froh
Loge art thou, but liar I call thee!
...
Loge
Thankless was ever Loge's toil!
In care but for thee, looked I around,
and restlessly searched to the ends of the world:
to find a ransom for Freia,
fit for the giants and fair.
In vain sought I, and see now full well:
in the world's wide ring nought is so rich
that a man will take it as price
for woman's worth and delight!
(All show astonishment and perplexity.)
...
what among men more mighty seems,
than woman's worth and delight?
...

Wotan
Foolish art thou