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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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