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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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