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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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