因當年未能接受徐志摩的愛情，林徽因於徐志摩逝世四周年之際發表此一極其悲切感人的應答詩作：

林徽因《別丟掉》

別丟掉 Don’t toss out

這一把過往的熱情，this fervent love of the past,

現在流水似的，now like water flow merely,

輕輕 and slowly

在幽冷的山泉底，deep down the springs and cold mountain valley,

在黑夜，在松林，in pitch-black nights, in pine forests, 

嘆息似的渺茫，though bleak near a point of despair,

你仍要保存着那真！you must retain that truthful flare!

一樣是月明，Moonlight just as bright,

一樣是隔山燈火，same glowing lights on mountain sides,

滿天的星，a skyful of stars in a tier,

只有人不見，you are nowhere,

夢似的掛起，yet in the dreams you do appear,

你問黑夜要回 nagging from dark nights in persistence,

那一句話—— for that sentence --

你仍得相信 Please still be a believer, 

山谷中留着 of its very existence, 

有那回音！in that mountain valley where it echoes forever!