For award-winning, internationally-acclaimed author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-92). By Anthony Lawton: godson, cousin & literary executor. Rosemary Sutcliff wrote historical fiction, children's literature and books, films, TV & radio, including The Eagle of the Ninth, Sword at Sunset, Song for a Dark Queen, The Mark of the Horse Lord, The Silver Branch, The Lantern Bearers, Dawn Wind, Blue Remembered Hills.
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I used a quote from Rosemary Sutcliff’s “The Shining Company” in the “comments “section of the online version of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary to illustrate the usage of the word “dayspring”. No coincidence, I think, that someone else mentioned the use of this word in Kipling’s work…
“Rebecca Friedman · Freelance Fiction Editor at Self-employed
“Dayspring mishandled cometh not againe” – Rudyard Kipling, refrain line to Gertrude’s Prayer, which is the accompanying poem to Dayspring Mishandled, a short story, also by Kipling. It was a very good story, and that phrase was key to it, so I needed to know what dayspring was.
Anne McFadgen
Rosemary Sutcliff’s young adult historical novel, “The Shining Company”:
“The guide put in, ‘If you can keep him in the saddle through tonight, I can bring you by dayspring to a safe place where we can lie up for the needful days with no fear of Sea-wolves’.”
I have a feeling Sutcliff also used this word in “The Eagle of the Ninth”, but can’t remember exactly where.”
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 
I used a quote from Rosemary Sutcliff’s “The Shining Company” in the “comments “section of the online version of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary to illustrate the usage of the word “dayspring”. No coincidence, I think, that someone else mentioned the use of this word in Kipling’s work…
“Rebecca Friedman · Freelance Fiction Editor at Self-employed
“Dayspring mishandled cometh not againe” – Rudyard Kipling, refrain line to Gertrude’s Prayer, which is the accompanying poem to Dayspring Mishandled, a short story, also by Kipling. It was a very good story, and that phrase was key to it, so I needed to know what dayspring was.
Anne McFadgen
Rosemary Sutcliff’s young adult historical novel, “The Shining Company”:
“The guide put in, ‘If you can keep him in the saddle through tonight, I can bring you by dayspring to a safe place where we can lie up for the needful days with no fear of Sea-wolves’.”
I have a feeling Sutcliff also used this word in “The Eagle of the Ninth”, but can’t remember exactly where.”
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dayspring
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