anonymous Chinese poem: By Heaven!

By Heaven!
I will be your comrade,
and may our friendship never fail.
When mountains have no peaks
and rivers run dry,
when thunder rolls in winter
and summer snow falls–
only then will I desert you!

translated  by Burton Watson

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