The lines 'While a true friend lives within the four seas, the ends of the earth are like next door' come from 'Farewell to Sheriff Du on His Way to a Post in Shuzhou'.
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The title explained: 少府 was a polite name for a county sheriff, 之任 means 'to go to take up a post', and Shuzhou was in today's Sichuan.
culture
Unlike most farewell poems it refuses to be sad. After 海内存知己，天涯若比邻 it ends 无为在歧路，儿女共沾巾。 'Let us not, where the roads part, wet our handkerchiefs together like boys and girls.'
