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

Jaunting, journeying To his own dayspring, He unpacks the loaded pern Of all 'twas pain or joy to learn, Of all that he had made.

From The Wild Swans at Coole by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

The dayspring from on high had not yet visited mankind.

From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Cross, Joseph

Inshore the one sustained and solemn toll of bell at the pier-head measures out time to the sum of a dismal dayspring.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)

His solemnly low implorations were drenched with agonizing tears, and they only ceased when the dayspring came and drove the somber terrors of the night before it.

From Prisoners of Conscience by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston