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

My Child, of might indwelling, My sweet, all sweets excelling, Of bliss the fountain flowing, The dayspring ever glowing My darling, etc.

From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)

Not even the soul-benumbing visits of his clerical minister could repress the swell of the slow-mounting dayspring in the soul of the hard, commonplace, business-worshiping man, Hector Crathie.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various

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

At a first hearing of "Also Sprach Zarathustra," it seemed as though the very dayspring had descended into the orchestra to make that famous, brassy opening passage.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul