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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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