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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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