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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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