兩間憔悴一儒生 長對青燈亦可驚
不卜文章流海內 莫教詩酒誤虛名
得侔前輩追真意 便是今生入世誠
白眼何妨看俗傖 幽懷默默寄書城
《Book City (1930)》Deng Tuo
Languishing in two offices braves this literary worker
Toiling with a single lamp may encounter events freaky as fear
One knows not how reports and essays get spread around
But to protect a clean name not be spoiled by poetry and wine
Keeping pace with how my forerunners seek the common destination
I hold fast always to be trustworthy in any situation
The conceited individual may look down on the views of citizens
In demure and confidence I trust our future on learned books written