Failure in Visiting the Garden is a beautiful small Chinese poetry. The author is the poet Ye Shao Weng (叶绍翁) in the Southern Song Dynasty. This Chinese poetry describes the author wanted to visit friend’s garden, but failed. Green moss and red apricot-twig shows the vitality of spring. Reveal the author fondness for spring.

The English translation of this Chinese poetry:

Failure in Visiting the Garden
My clogs hesitated to touch the moss in green,
The door was tapped longer, but still not open.
Spring air’s too overfull to be shut in the garden,
Over the wall one red apricot-twig had to crane.

The Chinese original text:

游园不值

应怜屐齿印苍苔，

小扣柴扉久不开。

春色满园关不住，

一枝红杏出墙来。

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