the shining spring morning
-- Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions (1948)
this peachy morning-light
makes your face more radiant
than any flower,
and more succulent
than any fruit …
-- Neil Stephenson, The System of the World (2004)
We try, when we wake,
to lay the new day
at God’s feet . . .
-- C.S.Lewis, The Problem of Pain (1940)
