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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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