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Day-star   Listen
noun
day-star  n.  
1.
The morning star; the star which ushers in the day; usually the planet Venus, when seen before and just after sunrise. "A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts."
2.
The sun, as the orb of day. (Poetic) "So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky."





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... Lenten lilies, Florence is never terrible, Florence is never old. In her infancy they fed her on the manna of freedom, and that fairest food gave her eternal youth. In her early years she worshipped ignorantly indeed, but truly always the day-star of liberty; and it has been with her always so that the light shed upon her is still as the ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida


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