“Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.”
“It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”
“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
“The stillest hour of the night had come, the hour before dawn, when the world seems to hold its breath. The moon hung low, and had turned from silver to copper in the sleeping sky.”
“It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until dawn, I get just a tad slaphappy.”
“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”