“Out of the paths of the morning star they came”

— Sri Aurobindo , book Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

Savitri (1918-1950), Book Three : The Book of the Divine Mother
Context: I saw the Omnipotent's flaming pioneers
Over the heavenly verge which turns towards life
Come crowding down the amber stairs of birth;
Forerunners of a divine multitude,
Out of the paths of the morning star they came
Into the little room of mortal life.
I saw them cross the twilight of an age,
The sun-eyed children of a marvellous dawn,
The great creators with wide brows of calm,
The massive barrier-breakers of the world
And wrestlers with destiny in her lists of will,
The labourers in the quarries of the gods,
The messengers of the Incommunicable,
The architects of immortality.

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Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, gur… 1872–1950

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And I danced in the moon
And the stars and the sun,
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And I danced on the earth,
At Bethlehem
I had my birth.”

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“But with the morning cool reflection came.”

Walter Scott book Chronicles of the Canongate

Chronicles of the Canongate, Chap. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The golden guess
Is morning-star to the full round of truth.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

Columbus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“At length the morn and cold indifference came.”

Nicholas Rowe The Fair Penitent

Act i, scene 1. Compare: "But with the morning cool reflection came", Sir Walter Scott, Chronicles of the Canongate, chap. iv. Scott also quotes this in his notes to "The Monastery", chapter iii, note 11; and with "calm" substituted for "cool" in "The Antiquary", chapter v.; and with "repentance" for "reflection" in "Rob Roy", chapter xii.
The Fair Penitent (1703)

“’Neath cold sand I dreamed of death / but woke at dawn to see / in glory, the bright, the morning star.
This was not judgement day — only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.”

William Styron book Sophie's Choice

Last lines
Sophie's Choice (1979)

“At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course?”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

St. 1.
"Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni" (1802)
Context: Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course? So long he seems to pause
On thy bald awful head, О sovran Blanc!

“Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.”

Dante Alighieri book Inferno

Canto XXXIV, line 139 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“TRIFLE
On early morn children were playing at the river’s shore
close to the noon soldiers came out of the blue
by the dim river red played theirs sins”

Marcin Malek (1975) Polish writer

Call me an idiot (2012), pages 41, the whole piece

“Out of the paths of the morning star they came”

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