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The sun digs the ore from our mines, he rolls the iron;
日光從礦脈挖掘礦石；它能讓鐵轉動，
he rivets the plates, he boils the water; he draws the train.
它能往板子里釘鉚釘，它能將水燒沸，它能拉動火車。
He not only grows the cotton, but he spins the fiber and weaves the web.
它不但能生長棉花，還能織布和編網。
There is not a hammer raised, a wheel turned,
在這些過程中，并沒有舉起過錘子，讓輪子轉動起來，
or a shuttle thrown, that is not raised, and turned, and thrown by the sun.
或者讓織機的梭子來回移動，而這一切的始作俑者都是日光。
His energy is poured freely into space,
它的能量隨意地大量涌進空間，
but our world is a halting place where this energy is conditioned.
但是我們的世界是一個能量受限的地方。
Here the Proteus works his spells; the selfsame essence takes a million shapes and hues,
在這里，變形桿菌動用它的魔力，完全一樣的東西可以變幻出一百萬種形式和色彩，
and finally dissolves into its primitive and almost formless form.
最終分解為原始的幾乎無形的形式。
The sun comes to us as heat; he quits us as heat;
日光讓我們直接感受到的是熱量，離開我們時也以體現為熱量散去；
and between his entrance and departure the multiform powers of our globe appear.
在它進入和退出之間我們地球出現多種形式的能量。
They are all special forms of solar power,
它們都是太陽能的具體形式，
the molds into which his strength is temporarily poured in passing from its source through infinitude.
它的能量通過無限之物從其源泉暫時轉變為具體能量模式。
