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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: nor is anything but external splendor added to the life and humor
of Siegfried.
In the original poem, Brynhild delays her self-immolation on the
pyre of Siegfried to read the assembled choristers a homily on
the efficacy of the Love panacea. "My holiest wisdom's hoard,"
she says, "now I make known to the world. I believe not in
property, nor money, nor godliness, nor hearth and high place,
nor pomp and peerage, nor contract and custom, but in Love. Let
that only prevail; and ye shall be blest in weal or woe." Here
the repudiations still smack of Bakoonin; but the saviour is no
longer the volition of the full-grown spirit of Man, the Free
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