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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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