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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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