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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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