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SIEGFRIED
“Leuchtende Liebe
Lachender Tod.”
Lachender Tod.”
Miraculous boy, reared in the forests deep,
The bear thy playmate and the wolf thy friend,
Whose arms alone could forge anew and mend
Thy sire's great sword, and slay with one full sweep
The poisonous Worm coiled round his sacred keep:
Thy boyhood touches on its glorious end,
For where the flame-ringed mountain peaks ascend
Behold the Valkyr maiden laid asleep.
The bear thy playmate and the wolf thy friend,
Whose arms alone could forge anew and mend
Thy sire's great sword, and slay with one full sweep
The poisonous Worm coiled round his sacred keep:
Thy boyhood touches on its glorious end,
For where the flame-ringed mountain peaks ascend
Behold the Valkyr maiden laid asleep.
Boy, ignorant of fear and of desire,
Thus far the wood-bird led thee through the fire.
Thou hast accomplished all that Wotan saith.
Thy mighty life hath found its goal in this,
O Siegfried! in Brynhildr's rapturous kiss
Of waking Love that shines and laughs at death!
Thus far the wood-bird led thee through the fire.
Thou hast accomplished all that Wotan saith.
Thy mighty life hath found its goal in this,
O Siegfried! in Brynhildr's rapturous kiss
Of waking Love that shines and laughs at death!
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