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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Sunrise

The east is blossoming! Yea, a rose,
Vast as the heavens, soft as a kiss,
Sweet as the presence of woman is,
Rises and reaches, and widens and grows
Large and luminous up from the sea,
And out of the sea as a blossoming tree.
Joaquin Miller.—Sunrise in Venice, Stanza 3.

’Tis morn. Behold the kingly Day now leaps
The eastern wall of earth with sword in hand,
Clad in a flowing robe of mellow light,
Like to a king that has regained his throne,
He warms his drooping subjects into joy,
That rise rejoiced to do him fealty,
And rules with pomp the universal world.
Joaquin Miller.—Ina, Scene 2.