grape Let us contemplate vine the

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

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