Off in the nether lands, I heard a sound

Like the beating of heavenly wings

And deep in my brain, I can hear a refrain

Of my soul as she rises and sings

Anthems to glory and anthems to love

And hymns filled with earthly delight

Like the songs that the darkness composes to worship the light

Dan Fogelberg, from Nether Lands

“One regret that I am determined not to have when I am lying upon my death bed

Is that we did not kiss enough.”

‘Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.”

Look what happens with a love like that—it lights the whole world.’