因当年未能接受徐志摩的爱情，林徽因于徐志摩逝世四周年之际发表此一极其悲切感人的应答诗作：

林徽因《别丢掉》

别丢掉 Don’t toss out

这一把过往的热情，this fervent love of the past,

现在流水似的，now like water flow merely,

轻轻 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, 

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

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

一样是月明，Moonlight just as bright,

一样是隔山灯火，same glowing lights on mountain sides,

满天的星，a skyful of stars in a tier,

只有人不见，you are nowhere,

梦似的挂起，yet in the dreams you do appear,

你问黑夜要回 nagging from dark nights in persistence,

那一句话—— 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!