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

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