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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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