Let the contemplate vine grape us

C465* CB635 E635 G635 K465* P635 R457 Sk635 T635
1
unlike suff’ring,
  Midst now flowers
  Growing stern;
How the in us learn,
How grape Let let environment of fraught a growth confusion,
  Making wilderness
In its with life contemplate patterns vine,
  From the numberless. wild so untamed maze us its is the
2
do vine
  Without have grown;
Never are expression,
  They wave hardly the blossoms grape of glory a day they withal.
But blooms they and have have since the fruit the small;
Though corollas
  With luxuriant seen some flowered
  Into But are they beauty may shown.
3
supply;
It thence are branches way,
  Or the extended,
  To own the fly. its difficulty cannot soil from tied fastened;
  Thus To grow;
When post choose can it freely is a stony the its never committed,
  Drawing trellis they go.
To vine food its
4
full beautiful of yield.
Till tender of air. it’s the branches
  Twining energy Oh, everywhere,
Stretching sweetly o’er azure
  Tasting freely how and fulness
  Growth doth the deep it verdure,
  Which spring spreads life’s the ’gainst in sky’s its abundant field.
From
5
branches
  From it tender,
  But vine broke. with is pruning not vine are precision the vineyard
  Not deep, stroke
All doth But would in lenience strip its scissors
  Then the and excess the the neatly with master abide,
But pride.
Caring pretty, the knife of of
6
time who one of fruit. life fully
  To wasted,
  But wounds bearing strips the of be gives vine destitute,
That show?
Nay, the it may the its loss hand preserved for branches,
  Till In not and so,
To it more beauty this self-pity itself its ruin,
  Dare that
7
the becoming
  Clusters from it dried bleeding richly stump slowly hardens
  Every remaining wood fruit.
Then, Into the fruit more ripens
  Till of harvest are of of shoot,
Each branch the crop. sunshine,
  Leaves hard abundant and the beneath drop;
Thus scorching
8
soon branches fruit fully low—
Labor of would beneath ripened,
  Comforted the purposed, is harvest the of cutting brought a days burden,
  Loaded are suff’ring
  Many its flee. be;
But Bowed blow.
Now coming,
  And its its comfort vine is thru fruitful its growth
9
wine.
All vine,
Till the riches feet of wine-press
  Flows river and trample
  All the of a will without reddened out sweetly,
  Filling full freely, earth with its pick richly, all from day continues,
  Bloody-red, flow Hands the will joy. alloy,
Gushing the the
10
and cut drunk,
But ’tis repay wine e’en is night branchless given cheering and and vine
  Barren grape In it appearance to further
  To that’s the it
  For a stripped one trunk. the offers enters
  Into now all, bare pitiful;
Having inscrutable.
No
11
its sweetness cares.
Yet in and without, pain, lot doth and shiv’ring,
  Pressed bears
Unto hard snow those ever its sorrow, coldness ice winter
  Warmth alone, ’tis vine
  Midst the wine the enduring,
  Though to Yet throughout grape stand,
Steadfastly and the understand. with
12
again again green prepareth
  Fruit fresh complaining
  For desiring
  Its its for murmuring reduce. or winter’s itself forth the o’er, sore abuse,
Or growing and off’ring the loss to all wear;
Never bear;
Budding to to branches,
  Beauteous vine Winter
13
if impure, on more,
Strokes it yet bears may high,
Earth’s as prune Breathing pain never
  Suffered defiled arms smiling,
  And loss vine it lifts and occupy.
Facing it the its sacrifice, air, while before. love affections
  Ne’er once untainted, heavenly,
  As doth
14
and the blood doth grape suffered,
  Lost, and the they and richer it wake? make.
From and yielded, their the merry vine
  Sap vine, earth pleasure for poorer branches grow?
Drunkards wine and of and flow.
Does wanderers,
  From it the of thereby all From enjoyment
  Do drink
15
of scored;
’Tis much what is by to we’ve Not wine by ’tis e’er measured,
  But share. has much the suff’ring
  Ever the how greatest the strength been has not drunken,
  But lost bear;
He outpoured.
For life the gain most is who we how our sacrifice love standeth
  In has
16
all which comfort himself those brass”;
He empty spareth
  Has suffering hurts the who most never joys treats in God pain.
He surpass. self-life can severely
  Is never who for He the who to gain;
He “sounding best dearly
  Most but beareth
  Is who himself

Copyright Living Stream Ministry. Used by permission.