北京大學沙灘校園白樓法學院圖書館，1951

學海無邊，

好書自選，

哪顧休閑？

如此清幽，

一人靜讀，

窗外秋天。

夜深思索難眠，

念今古，才俊萬千。

各有專攻，

淺嘗止步，

悔恨年年。

注：

1951年新學年開始，除新生外，文科高年級（二、三、四年級和研究生）和絕大部分文科教師都到廣西參加土改去了。因此，法學院圖書館內只有極少數人在看書。

Tune: Green Willow Twigs

—Written at the Law School Library in the White Building of

Peking University, Shatan Section, 1951

The sea of study is boundless,

Good books free in abundance,

Whence the time for idleness?

In tranquility divine as such,

Quietly and alone I read, when

Autumn fills the blue vastness.

Thought bound, night finds me sleepless,

Then and now, plenty are men of excellence.

Each has his own specialty,

But with a smattering cut short early,

Falling prey to regrets endless.

Note:

Beginning from the new semester of 1951, with the exception of freshmen, senior students (sophomores, third and fourth grades and graduate students) as well as most teachers in the literary sciences went to Guangxi on account of the land reform movement. As a result, only a few students were studying at the Law School Library.