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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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