They are unsatisfactory, to put it very mildly, and, will have to be re-written again before, these operas can be sung with artistic decency in English.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
Let us wait, and sing, and be wise, As the sea has waited and sung, As the hills through the night have been wise!
"Open Water"
Arthur Stringer