dawn vs spring to mind

dawn

verb
  • To start to appear or be realized. 

  • To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. 

  • To begin to brighten with daylight. 

noun
  • The rising of the sun. 

  • The earliest phase of something. 

  • The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise. 

  • The time when the sun rises. 

spring to mind

verb
  • To appear suddenly in one's thoughts, often as an example of something. 

How often have the words dawn and spring to mind occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )