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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 9. ...to Yuan Zhen...
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to Yuan Zhen
Since I left home to seek official state,
Seven years I have lived in Ch'ang-an.
What have I gained? Only you, Yuan;
So hard it is to bind friendship fast . . .
We did not go up together for Examination;
We were not serving in the same Department of State.
The bond that joined us lay deeper than outward things;
The rivers of our souls spring from the same well.
—Bo Juyi,[i]
circa 805
[Levy/Walley]
[i] “to Yuan Zhen” Bo Juyi; see: https://rictornorton.co.uk/bojuyi.htm
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