第11章 柳梢青（1）

北京大学沙滩校园白楼法学院图书馆，1951

学海无边，

好书自选，

哪顾休闲？

如此清幽，

一人静读，

窗外秋天。

夜深思索难眠，

念今古，才俊万千。

各有专攻，

浅尝止步，

悔恨年年。

注：

1951年新学年开始，除新生外，文科高年级（二、三、四年级和研究生）和绝大部分文科教师都到广西参加土改去了。因此，法学院图书馆内只有极少数人在看书。

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.