Light in the east (4)

I believe the answer is:

dawn

(Other definitions for dawn that I've seen before include "Early morning sing-song?" , "Aurora, poetically" , "beginning" , "Daybreak" , "Threshold" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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