Tradition and verse — not medical advice
Authorship
Shown in author's own English -- not a translation we made.
You say that father writes a lot of books, but what he writes I don't understand.
What nice stories, mother, you can tell us! Why can't father write like that, I wonder?
Did he never hear from his own mother stories of giants and fairies and princesses?
Father always plays at making books.
If ever I go to play in father's room, you come and call me, "what a naughty child!"
When I take up father's pen or pencil and write upon his book just as he does,--a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i,--why do you get cross with me, then, mother?
But if I take only one sheet to make a boat with, you say, "Child, how troublesome you are!"
What do you think of father's spoiling sheets and sheets of paper with black marks all over on both sides?
In plain words (ours, not the poet's): a child compares their mother's lovely bedtime stories with their father's grown-up books full of confusing writing, and wonders, fairly, why the two are treated so differently.
Why public domain: Tagore wrote The Crescent Moon in English himself, first published London 1913. US: pre-1929 publication, public domain in the US. Tagore died 1941; public domain in India (life + 60 years) since 2002.