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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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