缅甸南洋中学青年教师王鹏年，云南人，毕业于云南大学英语系，曾在仰光人民日报翻译英文电讯稿。共和国诞生前夕，加入朱家璧领导的“云南边疆纵队”，不幸，遭到敌人伏击而壮烈牺牲。
您象壮志凌云的雄鹰， 为了共和国的诞生， 黎明前的黑暗中遭受了伏击， 鲜血滴进了边疆的荒原， 您用生命换来了西盟山村寨的 鸡啼。 您离开我们已将近半个世纪， 再没有人提起您的名字和故事， 象一颗流星划亮黎明的前夕。 今天，
我在遥远的番邦异域， 从心里掏出几行诗句， 象燃烧的红烛遥祭； 尊敬的师长啊，你可了解我的诚意？ 今天， 多少人沿着您的足迹， 同共和国一道， 从胜利走向胜利！ 没有眼泪，更不用哭泣， 因为后来的雄鹰更有坚强的翅翼！
An Eagle in the Southern Land
Wang Pengnian, a young teacher at Nanyang Middle School in Burma, was from Yunnan and graduated from the English Department of Yunnan University. He once translated English news cables for the People’s Daily in Rangoon. On the eve of the founding of the People’s Republic, he joined the Yunnan Borderland Column led by Zhu Jiabi. Tragically, he was ambushed by the enemy and died a heroic death.
You were like an eagle soaring with great ambition, for the birth of the Republic, you were ambushed in the darkness before dawn, your blood fell upon the wilderness of the frontier, and with your life you bought the sound of roosters calling in the mountain villages of Ximeng.
You have been gone for nearly half a century. No one speaks anymore of your name or your story, like a shooting star that once lit the eve of dawn.
Today, in a distant foreign land, I draw a few lines of verse from my heart, like a burning red candle offered from afar. Honored teacher, can you understand my sincerity?
Today, how many people follow the path you left, and together with the Republic, move from victory to victory!
There are no tears, and no need to weep, for the eagles who came after you have even stronger wings.