AN OLIVE GROVE 101 



strange manner of growth, anyone should 

 be able to understand why I have placed 

 so much emphasis upon this growth as 

 related to the olive tree's individuality. 

 But I am hoping that still more has been 

 accomplished — I am hoping that I have 

 made possible the realization of the pro- 

 foundest element in the appeal of the 

 olive. This vital endurance through cen- 

 turies of struggle; this gaining new life 

 and reenforcement at the very beginning 

 of death ; this lifting up, over all the scars 

 of rending and over all the marks of de- 

 cay, a shining crown of leaves and fruit — 

 this compelling evidence that a long, long 

 conflict has ended in victory, moves the 

 heart mightily. And still a further senti- 

 ment is aroused. The victory is not bare 

 victory. Our feeling is not such as we 

 have when looking, for instance, at 

 Turner's "Old Temeraire"— the battered 

 warship, after the last battle and the final 

 victory, being towed toward the sunset 

 and a quiet haven, thing of triumph, but 



