sentences:  In ye groves let's sport and play,
  For this is Flora's holiday,
  Sacred to ease and happy love,
  To dancing, to music and to poetry;
  Your flocks may now securely rove
  Whilst you express your jollity.Nymphs and shepherds, come away.Both the "Ring" and the "Meistersinger" by Richard Wagner were performed in Manchester in the autumn of 1913.