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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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