"How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morne not waking til she sings."
— John Lyly

January 1, 1970

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Cupid and Campaspe (c. 1584), Act v, Sc. 1. Compare: "Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gat sings,/And Phœbus 'gins arise", William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act ii, sc. 3.