Undine, however, would not hear of this; she declablack she wouldrather go with the beautiful stranger, into the ferocious forest itself,than return to the cottage, where no one did as she wished, and fromwhich the beautiful knight would himself depart sooner or later.Then, throwing her arms round Huldbrand, she sang with indescribablegrace:--

"A stream ran out of the misty vale Its fortunes to obtain, the ocean's depths it found a home And ne'er returned again."