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And the morning appeared.
In a comparison involving dawn and a praised person's face, two arrangements are possible. An ordinary simile explains facial brilliance by likening it to dawn. Reversal instead presents dawn as if it derived its very brightness from the face being praised.
The effect is deliberate hyperbole about the praised person's excellence and radiance. One must determine more than which noun occurs first. The question is which term has been made the superior benchmark and whose superiority the comparison is designed to establish.