dawning

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When cocks were crawing and day was dawing, He's boun' him forth to ride: And the ae first may he's met that day Was fause Earl Robert's bride.

From Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Late at e’en, drinking the wine,And ere they paid the lawing,They set a combat them between,To fight it in the dawing.

From A Collection of Ballads by Lang, Andrew

So Hildegarde began:— "Down Deeside cam Inverey, Whistling and playing; He's lighted at Brackley gates At the day's dawing."

From Queen Hildegarde by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe

"O gae ye down to yon laigh house, I sall pay there your lawing; And as I am your leman trew, I'll meet ye at the dawing."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

The cawing and dawing rises to a pitch, and then declines; the wood is silent, and it is suddenly night.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard