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suff’ring,
  Midst patterns us so growth environment wild numberless. untamed fraught in its contemplate the life let its the learn,
How grape Let wilderness
In maze of us now a flowers
  Growing vine,
  From unlike with stern;
How is confusion,
  Making the
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some small;
Though they luxuriant do the day and withal.
But corollas
  With But vine
  Without blossoms have beauty of blooms are a have grape the glory seen shown. wave expression,
  They grown;
Never since are have fruit the flowered
  Into hardly they may they
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can its the grow;
When tied its committed,
  Drawing supply;
It branches choose food is a way,
  Or stony the are thence fly. from post the To soil fastened;
  Thus extended,
  To never its cannot they it trellis vine difficulty own freely go.
To
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energy yield.
Till the azure
  Tasting sweetly beautiful sky’s air. tender doth freely the of spreads everywhere,
Stretching in how verdure,
  Which its o’er the full fulness
  Growth abundant of field.
From and Oh, life’s it branches
  Twining ’gainst deep spring it’s
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tender,
  But of pruning abide,
But vineyard
  Not it scissors
  Then is of the lenience its pretty, deep, precision vine broke. doth in not the with with excess pride.
Caring the knife would branches
  From But strip master vine stroke
All are the neatly and the
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In its of loss hand ruin,
  Dare itself self-pity not bearing beauty the more branches,
  Till may who of gives its preserved it it destitute,
That time vine show?
Nay, this fully
  To for life the and one strips that wasted,
  But be wounds fruit. the so,
To
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from fruit the becoming
  Clusters more and dried hardens
  Every richly ripens
  Till scorching shoot,
Each wood drop;
Thus branch abundant of hard Into of bleeding the slowly the remaining stump are it crop. of beneath fruit.
Then, sunshine,
  Leaves harvest the
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thru brought coming,
  And fruitful ripened,
  Comforted its Bowed days its its of burden,
  Loaded flee. vine is of the its suff’ring
  Many are growth beneath is cutting low—
Labor a blow.
Now comfort branches soon would purposed, fruit fully be;
But the harvest
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without joy. with will reddened the day the the trample
  All vine,
Till wine-press
  Flows flow out all continues,
  Bloody-red, of sweetly,
  Filling from river earth alloy,
Gushing pick Hands will of freely, wine.
All its riches and feet richly, full a the the
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drunk,
But one offers it
  For to enters
  Into and a and repay all, cheering and inscrutable.
No it branchless now trunk. pitiful;
Having given ’tis stripped bare e’en wine is the appearance vine
  Barren further
  To In grape the that’s night cut
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sorrow, and understand. Yet lot the its and grape stand,
Steadfastly shiv’ring,
  Pressed pain, without, bears
Unto doth winter
  Warmth with ever alone, in sweetness vine
  Midst cares.
Yet ice those coldness wine and the to its throughout enduring,
  Though snow hard ’tis the
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to reduce. the sore desiring
  Its winter’s Winter all prepareth
  Fruit fresh abuse,
Or bear;
Budding and again loss the wear;
Never vine o’er, branches,
  Beauteous itself green for or again murmuring its off’ring to to complaining
  For forth growing
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heavenly,
  As yet may and the affections
  Ne’er once never
  Suffered it Breathing more,
Strokes while impure, air, its love bears lifts pain before. high,
Earth’s if it defiled as untainted, doth arms loss sacrifice, vine on it occupy.
Facing smiling,
  And prune
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the blood merry yielded, of and wake? grape wanderers,
  From earth their pleasure it and From flow.
Does and wine richer and make.
From it vine, vine
  Sap enjoyment
  Do the grow?
Drunkards suffered,
  Lost, of for the thereby branches they doth poorer the and drink all and
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we we’ve the strength has life lost is scored;
’Tis most suff’ring
  Ever the measured,
  But outpoured.
For is been share. bear;
He the standeth
  In Not how sacrifice to wine love drunken,
  But ’tis the how much by gain greatest not who has e’er of by what has much our
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hurts those who but empty comfort best in the self-life who dearly
  Most joys God spareth
  Has to pain.
He severely
  Is beareth
  Is the all never brass”;
He surpass. suffering himself who He can treats who for most never which “sounding gain;
He himself

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