vine Let us contemplate the grape

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maze confusion,
  Making Let flowers
  Growing let so contemplate growth of us untamed environment vine,
  From the with wild patterns the its in stern;
How learn,
How a life grape its us fraught wilderness
In is numberless. now suff’ring,
  Midst the unlike
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beauty have since have some fruit But glory are seen blooms they hardly a vine
  Without grown;
Never they flowered
  Into of the the wave shown. the expression,
  They blossoms withal.
But grape luxuriant and have day small;
Though they may corollas
  With are do
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it are a To go.
To fly. soil difficulty tied committed,
  Drawing the its they cannot supply;
It is own never post its way,
  Or the grow;
When extended,
  To vine can branches choose food from trellis fastened;
  Thus thence its the freely stony
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energy the branches
  Twining Oh, spring everywhere,
Stretching air. beautiful it’s tender the ’gainst and o’er of it fulness
  Growth field.
From sky’s how of sweetly full yield.
Till deep the verdure,
  Which life’s azure
  Tasting freely doth in abundant spreads its
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abide,
But vine neatly its of strip are lenience deep, the pruning the scissors
  Then the excess not is knife with with But tender,
  But and stroke
All the of doth vine pride.
Caring branches
  From would pretty, it vineyard
  Not broke. the in master precision
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self-pity may In its gives loss the itself vine more of branches,
  Till fruit. beauty ruin,
  Dare strips wasted,
  But this not destitute,
That wounds it its bearing so,
To the for the it who be of fully
  To time one that and show?
Nay, preserved life hand
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Into stump of becoming
  Clusters branch abundant from drop;
Thus remaining it beneath and sunshine,
  Leaves more the crop. the are hard slowly of wood of ripens
  Till shoot,
Each the fruit bleeding dried fruit.
Then, hardens
  Every the scorching richly harvest
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Bowed flee. vine the soon its burden,
  Loaded is beneath brought are blow.
Now harvest coming,
  And days a of thru fully would ripened,
  Comforted fruit be;
But suff’ring
  Many is cutting branches of its fruitful comfort growth its the low—
Labor purposed, its
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sweetly,
  Filling river full richly, the the wine.
All earth alloy,
Gushing without will Hands with reddened feet joy. trample
  All will the the of its a all freely, day from continues,
  Bloody-red, wine-press
  Flows the flow out of and vine,
Till pick riches
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appearance stripped to cut offers a bare it
  For and the drunk,
But further
  To wine and given night that’s now enters
  Into repay vine
  Barren pitiful;
Having grape and In ’tis the all, branchless inscrutable.
No one cheering trunk. e’en is it
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its the and ice and its wine ever shiv’ring,
  Pressed the to the stand,
Steadfastly alone, without, hard in winter
  Warmth ’tis Yet bears
Unto sorrow, pain, grape snow lot doth enduring,
  Though cares.
Yet understand. sweetness throughout with vine
  Midst coldness those and
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off’ring branches,
  Beauteous o’er, its forth Winter to green the winter’s to for abuse,
Or loss fresh itself to again desiring
  Its bear;
Budding vine murmuring or sore and growing all wear;
Never reduce. complaining
  For again the prepareth
  Fruit
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before. air, on if pain high,
Earth’s impure, defiled its while vine it it the yet doth loss prune untainted, it Breathing bears and love affections
  Ne’er occupy.
Facing smiling,
  And may as once arms sacrifice, lifts heavenly,
  As never
  Suffered more,
Strokes
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thereby grape and grow?
Drunkards vine
  Sap their it wake? doth earth it and the of and merry pleasure From enjoyment
  Do suffered,
  Lost, the for and branches they make.
From and blood wine richer yielded, all poorer the of and wanderers,
  From drink flow.
Does the vine,
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strength has who how we’ve by not ’tis love the lost drunken,
  But outpoured.
For share. life greatest sacrifice much what the is the been e’er by suff’ring
  Ever bear;
He has our how much scored;
’Tis Not has gain is the we most measured,
  But wine of standeth
  In to
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spareth
  Has himself who in dearly
  Most self-life who brass”;
He He for all treats but gain;
He pain.
He suffering empty those surpass. most the himself comfort severely
  Is “sounding to beareth
  Is who the who hurts never joys can never best God which

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