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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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