Sentence:  During a residence of nearly two years in Switzerland, the first object that my eyes opened upon every morning was the snow-clad summit of Mount Blanc; and I thought "that" a glorious sight. But the glaciers that now form, next to the Omnipotent Being who created them, my first objects of <WSD>matutine</WSD> contemplation, present a battalion of icy pinnacles, amogst which Mount Blanc, with its pitiful fifteen thousand feet, would scarcely be admitted in the rear rank! 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or relating to early morning; occurring in the early morning; matutinal.