SUPERIOR

 Mother, your baby is silly! She is so absurdly childish!

She does not know the difference between the lights in the

     Streets and the stars.

When we play at eating with pebbles, she thinks they are real food,

     And tries to put them into her mouth.

When I open a book before her and ask her to learn her a, b, c. she

     Tears the leaves with her hands and roars for joy nothing; this is

     Your baby’s way of doing her lesson.

When I shake my head at her in anger scold her call

Her naughty, she laughs and thinks it great fun.

Everybody  knows about her  father is away, if in play I call aloud

      “father” she looks about her in excitement and thinks that father

      is near.

When I hold my class with the  donkeys that our washer man brings

      to carry away the clothes and I warm her that I am the schoolmaster

     she will scream for no reason and call me dada [elder brother].

Your baby wants to catch the moon, She is so funny; she calls Ganesh

     Ganush. [Ganesh, a common name in India, also that of the god with

 Mother, your baby is silly, she is no absurdly childish!