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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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