Is that what is meant by fearing?
Hey, old dotard!
Canst thou teach me
Nothing but this
With all thy craft,
Linger no longer by me:
No fear is here to be learnt.
MIME
Wait awhile yet!
What I have told thee
Seems to thee empty sound;
When thou hast heard
And seen him thyself,
Thy senses will swoon, overwhelmed!
When thine eyes grow dim,
And when the ground rocks,
When in thy breast
Thy heart beats loud,
[Very friendly.
Thou wilt remember who brought thee,
And think of me and my love.
SIEGFRIED
Thy love is not wanted!
Hast thou not heard?
Out of my sight with thee;
Let me alone!
Begin again talking of love,
And on the instant I go!
The horrible winking,
The nods and blinking—
When shall I see
The last of them,
And rid be at length of the fool?
MIME
Well, I will off,
And rest there by the spring.
Thou must stay here,
And as the sun scales the sky
Watch for the foe:
From his cave
He lumbers this way,
Winds and twists
Past this spot,
To water at the fountain.
SIEGFRIED [Laughs.
Liest thou by the spring,
Unchecked thither the brute shall go;
He shall swallow thee
Down with the water,
Ere with my sword
To the heart I stab him!
So heed well what I say:
Rest not beside the spring.
Seek somewhere else
A far-off spot,
And nevermore return.
MIME
Thou wilt not refuse
Cooling refreshment
When the fierce fight is over?
[Siegfried motions him angrily away.
Call on me too
Shouldst thou need counsel,
[Siegfried repeats the gesture with more violence.
Or if felled on a sudden by fear.
[Siegfried rises and drives him away with furious gestures.
MIME [Aside, as he goes away.
Fafner and Siegfried—
Siegfried and Fafner—
Might each the other but slay!
[He disappears in the wood on the right.
SIEGFRIED
[Stretches himself at his ease under the lime-tree, and looks after Mime as he departs.
He is no father of mine!
How merry of heart I feel!
Never before
Seemed the forest fair;