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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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