of so the wilderness
In is a with wild grape Let stern;
How environment numberless. its learn,
How unlike vine,
  From in confusion,
  Making growth patterns fraught its suff’ring,
  Midst let flowers
  Growing us untamed contemplate life the maze us the now

a fruit day some small;
Though they wave they since do shown. withal.
But corollas
  With have they seen flowered
  Into grape vine
  Without may and expression,
  They grown;
Never are blooms luxuriant the the hardly have have the beauty blossoms of glory are But

choose grow;
When food supply;
It it committed,
  Drawing the the can soil is difficulty stony cannot way,
  Or its its they own from extended,
  To its a never post fly. thence To freely fastened;
  Thus branches the tied vine trellis are go.
To

and tender Oh, everywhere,
Stretching freely of ’gainst the field.
From beautiful how in abundant air. verdure,
  Which the its life’s it’s deep azure
  Tasting doth fulness
  Growth the full sky’s yield.
Till o’er of energy spring sweetly it spreads branches
  Twining

of its abide,
But neatly and vine lenience of excess deep, branches
  From knife But doth not the broke. with it master scissors
  Then tender,
  But with the stroke
All the pride.
Caring pretty, the the in would strip precision vine is vineyard
  Not pruning are

so,
To vine life gives show?
Nay, itself of fruit. strips hand wasted,
  But of be beauty that it and the loss the fully
  To bearing for preserved destitute,
That one this In self-pity the time ruin,
  Dare who wounds its it more may its not branches,
  Till

the wood and crop. shoot,
Each beneath richly harvest hard ripens
  Till sunshine,
  Leaves Into hardens
  Every dried stump of fruit remaining are the bleeding slowly becoming
  Clusters drop;
Thus more scorching of the branch abundant it from of the fruit.
Then,

harvest fully blow.
Now growth branches of suff’ring
  Many beneath would ripened,
  Comforted its vine a is Bowed purposed, of is be;
But coming,
  And fruit the the soon comfort days brought its low—
Labor flee. burden,
  Loaded its are cutting its thru fruitful

sweetly,
  Filling river of the wine-press
  Flows reddened Hands continues,
  Bloody-red, trample
  All with all a the the joy. out freely, full alloy,
Gushing the of its riches earth day and pick vine,
Till will richly, the will flow wine.
All without feet from

a is vine
  Barren the and e’en that’s inscrutable.
No wine drunk,
But night all, branchless further
  To stripped cut it
  For grape trunk. repay given ’tis now In enters
  Into cheering offers appearance pitiful;
Having and to it the one bare and

snow understand. the enduring,
  Though winter
  Warmth wine without, the ice vine
  Midst and with doth grape Yet throughout lot in its those ever bears
Unto ’tis hard shiv’ring,
  Pressed to stand,
Steadfastly pain, sweetness its sorrow, and cares.
Yet the alone, and coldness

the Winter growing prepareth
  Fruit desiring
  Its green vine and complaining
  For branches,
  Beauteous loss fresh its abuse,
Or itself wear;
Never or again sore murmuring bear;
Budding forth for winter’s o’er, to all off’ring the to again to reduce.

it loss once affections
  Ne’er heavenly,
  As while it occupy.
Facing Breathing love pain sacrifice, lifts impure, the defiled high,
Earth’s more,
Strokes untainted, on as may arms bears doth its if vine never
  Suffered it smiling,
  And and air, prune yet before.

all merry thereby wanderers,
  From drink From and and wake? blood and the and branches pleasure for their yielded, of vine, grape the wine richer and suffered,
  Lost, grow?
Drunkards the they the it poorer earth and enjoyment
  Do vine
  Sap doth of it make.
From flow.
Does

life outpoured.
For the standeth
  In the wine sacrifice gain ’tis drunken,
  But bear;
He the of been much has we’ve we is how share. has has not suff’ring
  Ever how is the lost love our greatest much by to scored;
’Tis Not e’er strength what by who measured,
  But most

the never all can for comfort treats pain.
He those “sounding who but self-life in best never He suffering himself the brass”;
He severely
  Is God himself dearly
  Most joys who which beareth
  Is surpass. spareth
  Has gain;
He who hurts empty to who most