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

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

Blow to the dayspring of Liberty, to the new nation rising calmly above the dangers that beset her dawn.

From The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold A Play for a Greek Theatre by Chapman, John Jay

The dayspring had begun to streak the east when MacWhirlie, with a chosen band of Brownies, stood again before the closed trap-door of Cteniza's cave.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher

These principles and laws and firm sure roads appear from one dawning-place and shine from one dayspring, and these diversities were out of regard for the requirements of the time, season, ages, and epochs.

From A Traveler’s Narrative by `Abdu'l-Bahá