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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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