2000年12月8日,卞之琳先生应该迎来他90华诞。中国社会科学院外国文学研究所拟为他祝寿并为《卞之琳文集》问世而举行研讨会。11月中旬,父亲辛笛收到请柬却因衰病在身,无法外出,但对长他两岁的老诗兄惦念依旧,深夜醒来,万籁俱静,诗情涌动,遂成旧体诗一首,遥祝安康。晚年的父亲写旧诗比新诗更上手, December 8, 2000, Mr. Bian Zhilin should usher in his 90th birthday. The Institute of Foreign Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences intends to celebrate his birthday and hold a seminar for the publication of Bian Zhilin’s Anthology. In mid-November, his father Xin Di received the invitation because of bad health, unable to go out, but his long two-year-old poet still miss, wake up late at night, Wanlaimijijing poetic surging, then into the old body A poem, to wish well-being. In his later years his father wrote a poem more versatile than a new poem,