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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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