[Line 12: Under the meridian, or at noon, the shadows being shorter move slower, and, therefore the sun seems less in haste.]
[Line 21: By the beneficent influences of the stars.]
[Line 29: The old belief that the stars were fed by the light of the sun. So Milton,—
"Hither, as to their fountain, other stars
Repair, and in their golden urns draw light."
Here the stars are souls, the sun is Christ.]
[Line 55: The Muse of harmony and singing.]
[Line 72: The rose is the Virgin Mary, Rosa Mundi, Rosa Mystica; the lilies are the Apostles and other saints.]
[Line 78: The struggle between his eyes and the light.]
[Line 89: Christ reascends, that Dante's dazzled eyes, too feeble to bear the light of his presence, may behold the splendors around him.