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

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)

So near, indeed, is that religious dayspring that I seemed momently to see it breaking over the desert where I brought this book to an end.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules

We cannot afford, in one sense, to give up even the semblances and shows of religion, and these will survive until the new dayspring from on high shall supersede the necessity of their existence.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various