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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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