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

Light spreads from the dayspring in the west, and may it shine more and more until the perfect day!

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail

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

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

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane