| I rise in the east. I send my light
into your room, and tell you it is time to get up. I send my light here and
there. I shine on the trees, the houses, the hills and the water; and I make
everything look beautiful. I give you light and heat. I make the fruit and rice
ripe. I am high up in the sky. Sometimes I hide my face behind a thin cloud, and
then you may look at me. I travel in the sky. I never stop, and I am never
tired. But in fact it is the earth that is traveling all the time. The earth is big. It is a big, round ball. There are rocks on the earth. There is soil on the earth. There is water on the earth. See the people on the earth. Do the people fall off? Jump. You come down to the earth. Jump up again. You always come down to the earth. Snow comes down. Leaves come down. Rain comes down. The ball comes down. The earth pulls everything down. The pull of the earth is the gravity. Gravity holds the soil to the earth. It holds the water and the air. Gravity holds people to the earth, too. Gravity holds you to the earth. |