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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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