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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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