"Dayspring" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and men The passions, actions, habitudes of life, And rendering earth like heaven, a sacred place Where Love and Praise may take delight to dwell? Let none with heedless tongue from Truth disjoin The reign of Virtue. Ere the dayspring flow'd, Like sisters link'd in Concord's golden chain, 160 They stood before the great Eternal Mind, Their common parent, and by him were both Sent forth among his creatures, hand in hand, Inseparably ...
— Poetical Works of Akenside - [Edited by George Gilfillan] • Mark Akenside
... implacable light is divided, and its separated fierceness appeased into the soft blue that fills the depth of distance with its bloom, and the flush with which the mountains burn, as they drink the overflowing of the dayspring. And in this tabernacling of the unendurable sun with men, through the shadows of the firmament, God would seem to set forth the stooping of His own Majesty to men, upon the throne of the firmament. As the Creator of all the worlds, and the Inhabiter of eternity, ...
— Frondes Agrestes - Readings in 'Modern Painters' • John Ruskin |
