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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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