Caught gliding o'er pure streams on which he plays."
Davideis, lib. ii. ad finem.
Again, in a verse which was inserted in the Elegy as it originally stood (and the subsequent rejection of which we must ever grieve over, as it almost surpasses any verse of the entire poem; and besides would have saved it from the imputation of having been written as a heathen poet would have written it), the words "sacred calm" occur, which are not unfrequent in Cowley:
"Hark how the sacred calm that breathes around
Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease;
In still small accents whispering from the ground,
A grateful earnest of eternal peace."—
Gray.
"They came, but a new spirit their hearts possest,
Scattering a sacred calm through every breast."