Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Till roused at length to view the dawn...
Their words flash on us like the dawn's first...
...pleasantest, and hence neglecting to celebrate the pleasures of sleep as well. These are not to be found in blank oblivion, nor in the incongruous, unreal, and half-recollected shadows of the hours of darkness, but in the hours of early morning. Then, like the light of the dawn going before the full radiance of the sun, the self-consciousness of each human mind precedes the full resumption of the sceptre over its allotted portion of matter that begins another day of life. Then the visions of the night assume consistency and beauty, and our fancies of the daytime reappear...