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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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