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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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