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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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