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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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