How to get next/previous links in the middle ?

Hello !

I’m trying to figure out how to place my next post / previous post links around the actual post content, vertically centred.

Here is an illustration of what I want.

(The links are the << and >>.)

And here is my current code structure :

echo '<div class="next">'.get_previous_posts_link('>>').'</div>';
echo '<div class="previous">'.get_next_posts_link('<<').'</div>';	

		while (have_posts()) : the_post();
			echo '<div id="news">';
			the_title('<div class="title">', '</div>');
			the_date('F j, Y', '<div class="date">', '</div>');
			echo '<div class="text">'.get_the_content().'</div>';
			echo '</div>';
		endwhile;

Thank you !