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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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