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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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