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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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