dayspring

In the morning, at the dayspring, I wakened, shivering; lo, The white garden that blossomed at my feet Was a garden hidden in snow.

The dayspring from on high had but put to flight the lesser stars.

His court was the goal of ambassadors, the dayspring of liberality, the horizon-point of hope, the end of journeys, a place where savants assembled and poets competed for the palm.

For in this hope she nurs'd them, and to know That Truth, while men regard a tetter'd page, Leaps on the mountains, and from age to age Reveals the dayspring's inexhausted glow.

But there is no rose without its thorn, nor dayspring unheralded by the darkness.