Bai Juyi (772–846) Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty
在天願作比翼鳥
在地願為連理枝
天長地久有時盡
此恨綿綿無絶期
The last four lines.
"A Song of Unending Sorrow"
“The timid temper lives in perpetual terror, the nobler one braces itself to endure when ever the appointed time shall come.”
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