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

And like the dew each dayspring new That tender love shall onward lead me: My thirst shall slake, yet thirst awake Till every breath shall pant:—"I need Thee."

From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Jennings, Frederick Charles

For in Scotland the dayspring was now risen upon men!

From John Knox by Innes, A. Taylor

Dark, dark hath been the midnight, But dayspring is at hand, And glory, glory dwelleth In Immanuel's land.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

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.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold