dayspring
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dayspring
Example Sentences
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In the morning, at the dayspring, I wakened, shivering; lo, The white garden that blossomed at my feet Was a garden hidden in snow.
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The dayspring from on high had but put to flight the lesser stars.
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His court was the goal of ambassadors, the dayspring of liberality, the horizon-point of hope, the end of journeys, a place where savants assembled and poets competed for the palm.
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For in this hope she nurs'd them, and to know That Truth, while men regard a tetter'd page, Leaps on the mountains, and from age to age Reveals the dayspring's inexhausted glow.
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The dayspring from on high had not yet visited mankind.
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