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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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