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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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