Gone are the mortals who in former ages Beheld the flushing of the earlier morning. We living men now look upon her shining; They are coming who shall in future see her (i. 113, 11). In a similar strain another Rishi sings:-- Again and again newly born though ancient, Decking her beauty with the self-same colours, The goddess wastes away the life of mortals, Like wealth diminished by the skilful player (i. 92, 10). The following stanzas from one of the finest hymns to Dawn (i. 113) furnish a more general picture of this fairest creation of Vedic poetry:-- This light has come, of all the lights the fairest, The brilliant brightness has been born, far-shining. Urged onward for god Savitri's uprising, Night now has yielded up her place to Morning. The sisters' pathway is the same, unending: Taught by the gods, alternately they tread it. Fair-shaped, of different forms and yet one-minded, Night and Morning clash not, nor do they linger. Bright leader of glad sounds, she shines effulgent: Widely she has unclosed for us her portals. Arousing all the world, she shows us riches: Dawn has awakened every living creature. There Heaven's Daughter has appeared before us, The maiden flushing in her brilliant garments. Thou sovran lady of all earthly treasure, Auspicious Dawn, flush here to-day upon us. In the sky's framework she has shone with splendour; The goddess has cast off the robe of darkness. Wakening up the world with ruddy horses, Upon her well-yoked chariot Dawn is coming. Bringing upon it many bounteous blessings, Brightly shining, she spreads her brilliant lustre. Last of the countless mornings that have gone by, First of bright morns to come has Dawn arisen. Arise! the breath, the life, again has reached us: Darkness has gone away and light is coming. She leaves a pathway for the sun to travel: We have arrived where men prolong existence. Among the deities of celestial light, those most frequently invoked are the twin gods of morning named Açvins. They are the sons of Heaven, eternally young and handsome. They ride on a car, on which they are accompanied by the sun-maiden Surya. This car is bright and sunlike, and all its parts are golden. The time when these gods appear is the early dawn, when "darkness still stands among the ruddy cows." At the yoking of their car Ushas is born.