dayspring

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Little old Uncle Saltiel worshiped him, his disreputable cronies idolized him, thought him a dayspring from on high, a light to lighten his people.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not even the soul-benumbing visits of his clerical minister could repress the swell of the slow-mounting dayspring in the soul of the hard, commonplace, business-worshiping man, Hector Crathie.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various

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

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

But in the meane season we trudge and we trot, From dayspring to midnyght, I sit not, nor rest not.

From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Arber, Edward

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

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph