Unseen Comprehension-27 Alim (The Moon and her beauty

The moon and her beauty.

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The moon is a very familiar figure to all of us. She awakens a feeling of love and tenderness in our hearts Even infant in arms stretches out its hands to grasp this beautiful thing. Nor is  her appeal confined only to children. Ever since the stirring of the poetic faculty in man, she has furnished a theme for poet and artists. The full moon and the crescent moon have always played an important part in literature. But science has different things to tell about the moon. It reveals to us that moon has no light of her own. The soft silvery brightness, which forms her principal charm to us, is borrowed solely from the light of the sun. Out of the vast flood of light of which the sun pours forth, the moon grasps a little and of this little she reflects small fraction to illuminate the earth. When, on a clear night, we look out on the magic of moonlight it is often difficult for us to realise that the moon is shining in borrowed feathers. A very simple  observation, however will suffice to show the truth of this. Look at the pale moon in day light and she will seem to like a dim ghost of her former self, hardly distinguishable from the clouds that encloses her. You will then understand that she has to depend for light on the charity of the sun.