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Early morning. According to Grecian mythology, the goddess Aurora, called by Homer “rosy-fingered,” sets out before the sun, and is the pioneer of his rising.
“You cannot shut the windows of the sky,
Through which Aurora shows her brightening face.”
Thomson: Castle of Indolence, canto ii. 3.
Aurora’s tears. The morning dew.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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