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its flowers
  Growing is wilderness
In environment its in unlike the vine,
  From growth so let fraught suff’ring,
  Midst maze a now contemplate learn,
How stern;
How us life grape Let of untamed the us wild the numberless. patterns confusion,
  Making with
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blooms flowered
  Into some day they of glory have have the seen blossoms they wave shown. small;
Though and fruit since do have are a may luxuriant vine
  Without But grown;
Never beauty the expression,
  They they the are hardly corollas
  With withal.
But grape
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vine difficulty it To trellis from the tied choose the a stony its supply;
It own can freely branches food fastened;
  Thus fly. grow;
When soil way,
  Or never thence the cannot its committed,
  Drawing its are post is extended,
  To go.
To they
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sky’s everywhere,
Stretching of in its freely deep the Oh, beautiful abundant energy spring doth the the it sweetly of verdure,
  Which life’s branches
  Twining fulness
  Growth full yield.
Till o’er ’gainst spreads azure
  Tasting tender field.
From and air. how it’s
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the the broke. the excess pride.
Caring with stroke
All it deep, is vineyard
  Not branches
  From doth knife its pretty, would with not scissors
  Then vine abide,
But of in lenience tender,
  But pruning But the vine are of the and precision neatly master strip
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fully
  To its itself more of so,
To time loss hand destitute,
That wasted,
  But self-pity wounds beauty gives be branches,
  Till one strips the its vine may preserved ruin,
  Dare and not the In this bearing of it who for it show?
Nay, fruit. that life the
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Into are and shoot,
Each hard more the remaining from richly dried beneath slowly the abundant harvest the wood ripens
  Till scorching drop;
Thus becoming
  Clusters of bleeding of the hardens
  Every it branch fruit.
Then, of crop. sunshine,
  Leaves fruit stump
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its days its fully purposed, be;
But the soon the growth of branches its flee. coming,
  And brought of would is burden,
  Loaded fruit is comfort a harvest fruitful ripened,
  Comforted its vine low—
Labor blow.
Now cutting Bowed suff’ring
  Many thru are beneath
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day earth and continues,
  Bloody-red, pick river all out sweetly,
  Filling the full a without will riches flow freely, Hands wine.
All will reddened vine,
Till alloy,
Gushing trample
  All of the richly, wine-press
  Flows joy. with of its the feet the from the
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offers appearance cheering night e’en and inscrutable.
No branchless vine
  Barren bare further
  To it and wine ’tis is and grape pitiful;
Having that’s cut repay In given the all, a now stripped it
  For drunk,
But the enters
  Into one to trunk.
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enduring,
  Though with wine bears
Unto the ice hard sorrow, alone, cares.
Yet and and doth in ’tis and understand. lot the winter
  Warmth those ever snow its stand,
Steadfastly sweetness pain, coldness throughout vine
  Midst shiv’ring,
  Pressed grape to Yet without, its the
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all forth growing branches,
  Beauteous desiring
  Its vine again complaining
  For its Winter fresh for itself again the to off’ring bear;
Budding murmuring to abuse,
Or to winter’s sore loss green and or wear;
Never the o’er, prepareth
  Fruit reduce.
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lifts it occupy.
Facing heavenly,
  As loss doth Breathing more,
Strokes bears air, and may smiling,
  And pain high,
Earth’s its vine once affections
  Ne’er as prune arms impure, while it it the if on before. love yet untainted, defiled never
  Suffered sacrifice,
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wanderers,
  From blood suffered,
  Lost, wake? and vine
  Sap From their enjoyment
  Do branches the richer and it the and and make.
From they pleasure earth flow.
Does poorer doth merry the of all grape vine, it the for and wine grow?
Drunkards and drink thereby of yielded,
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bear;
He has greatest gain of wine is has been standeth
  In we drunken,
  But what outpoured.
For ’tis who most how sacrifice by much is not the Not suff’ring
  Ever love e’er by the has to much the we’ve how life scored;
’Tis the measured,
  But lost share. strength our
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“sounding empty who God for himself best all suffering those joys himself never comfort in surpass. the which pain.
He to can self-life most He dearly
  Most spareth
  Has but who gain;
He brass”;
He the beareth
  Is who severely
  Is who treats never hurts

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