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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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