[139] {109}[Compare—
"But I have seen the soaring Jungfrau rear
Her never-trodden snow."
Childe Harold, Canto IV. stanza lxxiii. lines 6, 7.
Byron did not know, or ignored, the fact that the Jungfrau was first ascended in 1811, by the brothers Meyer, of Aarau.]
[140] {110}[Compare—
"And who commanded (and the silence came)
Here let the billows stiffen and have rest?
Hymn before Sunrise, etc., by S.T. Coleridge, lines 47, 48, 53.
"Arrived at the Grindenwald; dined, mounted again, and rode to the higher Glacier—twilight, but distinct—very fine Glacier, like a frozen hurricane" (Letters, 1899, iii. 360).]
[141] [The idea of the Witches' Festival may have been derived from the Walpurgisnacht on the Brocken.]