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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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