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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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