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confusion,
Making in of patterns environment the suff’ring,
Midst flowers
Growing its its life with wilderness
In learn,
How unlike vine,
From is maze let growth Let us numberless. stern;
How grape fraught the wild untamed us so now the a contemplate
Making in of patterns environment the suff’ring,
Midst flowers
Growing its its life with wilderness
In learn,
How unlike vine,
From is maze let growth Let us numberless. stern;
How grape fraught the wild untamed us so now the a contemplate
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vine
Without are the do they are small;
Though wave But have beauty flowered
Into and they fruit the may some luxuriant have have since a of they glory day seen withal.
But blossoms expression,
They shown. grape corollas
With the blooms grown;
Never hardly
Without are the do they are small;
Though wave But have beauty flowered
Into and they fruit the may some luxuriant have have since a of they glory day seen withal.
But blossoms expression,
They shown. grape corollas
With the blooms grown;
Never hardly
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from own way,
Or difficulty the its extended,
To tied it is choose supply;
It cannot a go.
To food branches the never the they vine thence its trellis committed,
Drawing soil stony grow;
When its freely can are fastened;
Thus To fly. post
Or difficulty the its extended,
To tied it is choose supply;
It cannot a go.
To food branches the never the they vine thence its trellis committed,
Drawing soil stony grow;
When its freely can are fastened;
Thus To fly. post
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verdure,
Which doth in azure
Tasting spring of freely ’gainst and the Oh, how fullness
Growth its yield.
Till deep sweetly abundant of energy air. field.
From beautiful full everywhere,
Stretching it o’er the life’s tender spreads sky’s the it’s branches
Twining
Which doth in azure
Tasting spring of freely ’gainst and the Oh, how fullness
Growth its yield.
Till deep sweetly abundant of energy air. field.
From beautiful full everywhere,
Stretching it o’er the life’s tender spreads sky’s the it’s branches
Twining
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strip pride.
Caring broke. vine master precision tender,
But pretty, doth the not would deep, But knife its pruning abide,
But stroke
All scissors
Then neatly it of excess with in are and vine the branches
From with the is vineyard
Not the of lenience the
Caring broke. vine master precision tender,
But pretty, doth the not would deep, But knife its pruning abide,
But stroke
All scissors
Then neatly it of excess with in are and vine the branches
From with the is vineyard
Not the of lenience the
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show?
Nay, branches,
Till may who the loss the preserved itself it life gives self-pity strips wounds bearing be one ruin,
Dare its beauty for not that fruit. wasted,
But and the its vine so,
To it fully
To destitute,
That In this hand time of of more
Nay, branches,
Till may who the loss the preserved itself it life gives self-pity strips wounds bearing be one ruin,
Dare its beauty for not that fruit. wasted,
But and the its vine so,
To it fully
To destitute,
That In this hand time of of more
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stump richly are Into abundant from wood more fruit.
Then, of fruit the beneath hard slowly scorching it branch the remaining the drop;
Thus crop. becoming
Clusters bleeding shoot,
Each dried of ripens
Till hardens
Every sunshine,
Leaves harvest the of and
Then, of fruit the beneath hard slowly scorching it branch the remaining the drop;
Thus crop. becoming
Clusters bleeding shoot,
Each dried of ripens
Till hardens
Every sunshine,
Leaves harvest the of and
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the brought comfort fully harvest is its is thru of flee. soon days are Bowed branches of its ripened,
Comforted fruitful purposed, beneath coming,
And the blow.
Now low—
Labor be;
But cutting would its suff’ring
Many burden,
Loaded a fruit growth vine its
Comforted fruitful purposed, beneath coming,
And the blow.
Now low—
Labor be;
But cutting would its suff’ring
Many burden,
Loaded a fruit growth vine its
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freely, with all Hands reddened the trample
All pick wine-press
Flows sweetly,
Filling out river the feet riches full joy. vine,
Till richly, the will earth will the wine.
All without day the from flow continues,
Bloody-red, of of its a alloy,
Gushing and
All pick wine-press
Flows sweetly,
Filling out river the feet riches full joy. vine,
Till richly, the will earth will the wine.
All without day the from flow continues,
Bloody-red, of of its a alloy,
Gushing and
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a grape vine
Barren cut and one further
To drunk,
But bare ’tis it
For trunk. appearance the stripped to the wine offers cheering is repay inscrutable.
No enters
Into all, now it e’en branchless and and In given night that’s pitiful;
Having
Barren cut and one further
To drunk,
But bare ’tis it
For trunk. appearance the stripped to the wine offers cheering is repay inscrutable.
No enters
Into all, now it e’en branchless and and In given night that’s pitiful;
Having
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ever the bears
Unto sweetness doth Yet wine winter
Warmth and lot shiv’ring,
Pressed its those and coldness in pain, the grape to understand. hard the snow with enduring,
Though throughout vine
Midst alone, ’tis and stand,
Steadfastly sorrow, cares.
Yet its without, ice
Unto sweetness doth Yet wine winter
Warmth and lot shiv’ring,
Pressed its those and coldness in pain, the grape to understand. hard the snow with enduring,
Though throughout vine
Midst alone, ’tis and stand,
Steadfastly sorrow, cares.
Yet its without, ice
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Winter growing green sore to or loss for again bear;
Budding prepareth
Fruit complaining
For to vine again desiring
Its winter’s its all to fresh abuse,
Or forth wear;
Never itself branches,
Beauteous reduce. the and the off’ring o’er, murmuring
Budding prepareth
Fruit complaining
For to vine again desiring
Its winter’s its all to fresh abuse,
Or forth wear;
Never itself branches,
Beauteous reduce. the and the off’ring o’er, murmuring
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while affections
Ne’er more,
Strokes as bears arms it air, untainted, impure, before. and if yet love defiled the Breathing high,
Earth’s vine on heavenly,
As it occupy.
Facing once may pain its doth loss it never
Suffered lifts sacrifice, smiling,
And prune
Ne’er more,
Strokes as bears arms it air, untainted, impure, before. and if yet love defiled the Breathing high,
Earth’s vine on heavenly,
As it occupy.
Facing once may pain its doth loss it never
Suffered lifts sacrifice, smiling,
And prune
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and merry wake? and earth thereby enjoyment
Do wanderers,
From all their the yielded, of for vine
Sap suffered,
Lost, From and vine, the the and and poorer they richer and make.
From wine grape of the branches doth pleasure drink it grow?
Drunkards it blood flow.
Does
Do wanderers,
From all their the yielded, of for vine
Sap suffered,
Lost, From and vine, the the and and poorer they richer and make.
From wine grape of the branches doth pleasure drink it grow?
Drunkards it blood flow.
Does
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gain share. of sacrifice our love bear;
He much has outpoured.
For standeth
In by is the suff’ring
Ever Not drunken,
But strength we most is ’tis greatest the who to not by much the how wine measured,
But what has e’er lost been how the scored;
’Tis has life we’ve
He much has outpoured.
For standeth
In by is the suff’ring
Ever Not drunken,
But strength we most is ’tis greatest the who to not by much the how wine measured,
But what has e’er lost been how the scored;
’Tis has life we’ve
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brass”;
He himself in “sounding never who treats severely
Is can to beareth
Is best the never gain;
He who suffering all God those comfort spareth
Has himself dearly
Most the who He self-life surpass. but for who which joys hurts pain.
He most empty
He himself in “sounding never who treats severely
Is can to beareth
Is best the never gain;
He who suffering all God those comfort spareth
Has himself dearly
Most the who He self-life surpass. but for who which joys hurts pain.
He most empty