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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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