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

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