Excerpt from The Throne of Grace: A Volume of Personal Prayers, With a Prelude
The Bible is so full of strange and mighty thoughts that a reader is fairly bewildered in the luxuriance. I have observed that a single violet gives all the wonder of innumerable violets. When I lean and brush aside those sweet green violet leaves - which no one can describe and do them justice - and, leaning close, find quite hidden till the search reveals one lone, lovely violet, I cannot but feel that I have had the thrill of a hillside full of them when the spring is wide and wild. In late autumn, when we do not look to see a flower, I rummage among the late greens (for violets stay green late, and under withered leaves scarcely loosing their green tinted with autumnal crimson or gold), and when one lone violet, aspiring for the spring when Spring is far away, shines out, there is a witchery as indelible as joy in that one lone flower.
Not that that lessens all that blue beauty which a hundred violets hold. One cannot have too much blue sky, nor too many violets, although it is a well-accredited artistic consideration that a framed sky as from a window, or through an arch of an old wall, or seen through an opening in the wood, is more appealing and vivid because it is a lessened view and not a lessened loveliness. I have an old, old Greek vase, a little thing taken from ancient scori? of a buried city, and in this I love to put a single violet. One is enough.
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