在我国五彩繽紛的儿童文学园地中,袁鹰同志的儿童詩是一朵引人注目的鮮花。建国以来,袁鹰同志把教育祖国的新生一代当成是自己的神圣职責,他以飽滿的政治热情,为我們祖国的新生一代写下了不少优秀的詩章。几年来,他陆續出版了《篝火燃燒的时候》等四本儿童詩集,而在我們偉大祖国建国十周年的日子里,作为献礼。他又从四本詩集中选了三十首,汇集成詩集《寄到湯姆斯河去的詩》。袁鷹的儿童詩在广大少年儿童讀者中間有着广泛而深刻的影响。我們經常在少先队营火晚会上或是少先队詩歌朗誦大会上听到孩子們用清脆嘹亮的声音激动地朗誦袁鹰的儿童詩;这些詩深为他 In our colorful children’s literature field, Comrade Yuan Ying’s children’s poem is a striking flower. Since the founding of the People’s Republic, Comrade Yuan Ying regarded the new generation of educating the motherland as his own sacred duty. With full political enthusiasm, he wrote many excellent poems for the new generation of our motherland. Over the past few years, he has successively published four children’s poems such as “When the Burning Fire Burns,” and as a gift in the days of the tenth anniversary of the founding of our great motherland. He again selected thirty of the four anthologies of poems and pooled them into poems “Poems sent to the Toms River.” Yuan Ying’s children’s poetry in the vast majority of children and young readers have a broad and profound impact. We often hear the children sing their children’s poems with crisp and loud voices at the Young Pioneers Camp or at the Little Pioneers Poetry Readings. These poems are deep for him