daystar

"A brighter day is dawning," cried the famed Horace Mann, "and education is its daystar."

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead of that the hope that Genevra might in some way be restored to me unspotted, had unconsciously been the daystar of my existence, and I shrank from a final separation.

From Family Pride Or, Purified by Suffering by Mary Jane Holmes

A star, a daystar, a firedrake, rose at his birth.

From Ulysses by James Joyce

Loudon has had it in his head for some time;—ever since that colic of forty-eight hours, I should guess; upon the wrecks of which it might well rise as a new daystar.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle

So sinks the daystar in the ocean bed.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster