When the noise stopped, when the blasting, digging, chiseling, splitting, loading and hauling in the slate quarries and caverns ceased, miners in North Wales sang.

• 过去每当噪声止息，板岩采石场和洞穴里的爆炸声、挖掘声、穿凿声、劈裂声、载货声和拖曳声一切归于平静，北威尔士的矿工们便引吭高歌。