Colored Toys
When
I
bring
to
you
colored
toys,
my
child,
I
understand
why
there
is
such
a
play
of
colors
on
clouds,
on
water,
and
why
flowers
are
painted
in
tints
—-when
I
give
colored
toys
to
you,
my
child.
When
I
sing
to
make
you
dance
I
truly
know
why
there
is
music
in
leaves,
and
why
waves
send
their
chorus
of
voices
to
the
heart
of
the
listening
earth
—-when
I
sing
to
make
you
dance.
When
I
bring
sweet
things
to
your
greedy
hands
I
know
why
there
is
honey
in
the
cup
of
the
flowers
and
why
fruits
are
secretly
filled
with
sweet
juice
—-when
I
bring
sweet
things
to
your
greedy
hands.
When
I
kiss
your
face
to
make
you
smile,
my
darling,
I
surely
understand
what
pleasure
streams
from
the
sky
in
morning
light,
and
what
delight
that
is
that
is
which
the
summer
breeze
brings
to
my
body
—-when
I
kiss
you
to
make
you
smile.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 7, 1941, Calcutta) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India. In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.