illume

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Meant by Heaven to be the shadow of another's sun—not herself the sun—this child is not the one who can atone for the Past and illume the Future.”

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

See now the morning star the sky illume!

From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Wilson, Epiphanius

Dark, solemn stars, of radiance mild, His eyes illume the golden shade, And sweetest lips that never smiled The finger hushes, on them laid.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

And thou canst make that desert mind Bloom sweetly as the blushing rose; Thou canst illume that rayless void Till darkness like the day-gleam glows.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

And as I paced the lonely room, I wonder'd how that holy ray Could with its light a world illume So fill'd with falsehood and decay.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various