Long after we’re gone, peace remains.

The deep peace
Found on mountaintops
As night arrives
Another in the endless cycle 
Of dark and light.
Long before I came here to sit
And long, long after we’re gone
The deep peace of mountaintops remains.
     - Li Po (701-762), Heron Dance translation.

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