Suspended in this sky, the new moon-rather than display the abstract appearance of a half-moon-revealed its true nature as an opaque sphere, its whole outline illuminated by the oblique rays of a sun the earth had lost, though it retained (as you can see only on certain early-summer nights) its warm color.
Zeru horretan zintzilik, ilargi berriak ilgora deneko itxura abstraktua erakutsi baino gehiago, izatez esfera itsu bat dela salatzen zuen, lurrak galdu baina-uda hasierako halako gau batzuetan bakarrik ikus daitekeen bezala-bere kolore beroa mantentzen duen eguzki baten errainu makurrek inguruan argitua.