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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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