https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4z2Ey4PYT4The opera that was used to form the lyrics of A One Winged Angel. Clearly a favourite of Uematsu's as well as mine. This performance is one of the best I have heard.
Were diu werlt alle min
von deme mere unze an den Rin
des wolt ih mih darben,
daz diu chunegin von Engellant
lege an minen armen.
Were all the world mine
from the sea to the Rhine,
I would starve myself of it
so that the queen of England
might lie in my arms.
