“High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.”
William Falconer (1732–1769) British writer
Canto I, 426.
The Shipwreck (1762)
“And al smail fowlys syngis on the spray:
Welcum the lord of lycht, and lamp of day.”
Bk. 12, prologue, line 251.
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