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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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