无缘入妹画眉笼(He has no chance to enter her thrush cage)

英译：吴文南

哥是路边草一丛，

Goodman is a bush of roadside weeds trodden.

妹是园中四季葱。

Goodwife is a four-season scallion in the garden.  

阿哥好比山鸦鹊，

Goodman is like a mountain magpie of age.

无缘入妹画眉笼。

He has no chance to enter her thrush cage.