After that, when the Rhine-daughters came to the rock where the gold had
been, they could not sing their happy song.
Their faces were very sad now, and they said: "Oh, why did Alberich
steal our beautiful gold? It cannot make him happy, for no one can ever
be truly happy who does not know love."
They often sat upon the rocks in the dusk of the evening and cried as if
their hearts would break because they had lost their gold.
"The black waves surge in sorrow through the depths, And all the Rhine
is wailing in its woe."