Finally, The Song of Unending Sorrow by the T'ang poet Po Chu-i (772-846) has these lines: On the seventh day of the seventh month, in the Palace of Long Life, We told each other secretly at midnight, all alone That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one, And to grow together on the earth, two trees with branches intertwined.
像牛郎織女這樣深摯恆久的愛情，對方時時刻刻活現在我心深處，精神長相左右，又豈在乎相聚的久暫？白居易「長恨歌」云：七月七日長生殿，夜半無人私語時。在天願作比翼鳥，在地願為連理枝。