As Tan Chai Puan said: Teacher, tonight we say farewell to you as millions sing your songs, those songs with which I am as familiar as anyone can be, those songs that course through my veins like rivers, those songs that follow the seas and the 'traces of flowers' to the ends of earth and heaven.
如今哲人已逝，誠如陳再藩所說：老師，今夜送您，有千萬人重複唱了千萬遍的歌，那些熟悉得不能再熟悉的歌、血液似川行在我脈管裡的歌，隨花蹤與海水唱到天涯海角的歌。