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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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