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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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