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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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