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)

"To-morrow?" she exclaimed, a gleam of hope bursting upon her soul, like the dayspring.

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William

His solemnly low implorations were drenched with agonizing tears, and they only ceased when the dayspring came and drove the somber terrors of the night before it.

From Prisoners of Conscience by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

From Asia, from the dayspring that uprises, To Bromios ever glorying we came.

From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes