Cupid was the lord of the dawn. To a youthful race of men love was like
a “morn radiating with heavenly splendor over their souls, pervading
their hearts with a glowing warmth, purifying their whole being like a
fresh breeze, and illuminating the whole world around them with a new
light.” To express this feeling, the dawn of love, there was but one
similitude,--the blush of day, the rising of the sun. They said “The
sun has risen” where we say “I love.”