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

The word anatole is translated dayspring in the last couplet, because it is treated here as giving light to those who sit in darkness.

From The Prayer Book Explained by Jackson, Percival

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

He was pacing it, round and round, like a caged beast, when the stars grew faint and the silver ripple of the dayspring broke over the sea.

From The Blue Pavilions by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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)