Heavens
Anonymous, Yue-fu ballad,
From the Former to Later Han Dynasties (206 b.c. — a.d. 220)

 

 

Heavens—

I want to be with you, to know you

through two long lives that know no end;

When the mountains go without hills and the rivers run with no water

When the summer snows and the dry winter gives off thunders

Then Heaven and Earth will fold and collapse into one

And only then could I even begin to break us.

 

 

 

translated by Ken Chen

 

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