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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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