“May Morning, as the proverb runs, appear
Bearing glad tidings from his mother Night!”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 264–265 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)
“The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 47.
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