And Mimi raved:

"Who made the helmet, that wondrous cap that in a flash can change a man
into anything he wants to be?"


MIMI AND ALBERICH STOP TO QUARREL TOO LONG

While Mimi and Alberich quarreled, Siegfried came from the dragon's
cave, bearing the helmet and the ring.

He heard no sound save the rustling of the leaves and the song of the
bird.

Again he sat down in the shadow of a tree.

"Little bird, can you not help me to find a true friend?" asked
Siegfried.

"Each year you have your mate and your little birdlings in the nest. You
sing songs with the other birds.

"I have never known a father or a mother, a sister or a brother. I am
lonely.

"Is there nowhere in all this world some one whom I may love? Some one
who will love me?"

Then the wood-bird began to sing a pretty love-song of a maiden sleeping