Note 311 — CANTO THE THIRD.
Reading edition
[Compare the opening lines of Coleridge's Hymn before Sunrise in the Valley of Chamouni—
"Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran Blanc!"
The "thunderbolt" (line 6) recurs in Manfred, act i. sc. 1—
"Around his waist are forests braced, The Avalanche in his hand; But ere its fall, that thundering ball Must pause for my command."]