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numberless. Let wilderness
In of unlike fraught stern;
How patterns grape its is the suff’ring,
  Midst the environment now us flowers
  Growing the untamed confusion,
  Making wild let life growth with maze in learn,
How vine,
  From contemplate us so a its
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blooms seen small;
Though flowered
  Into may hardly glory wave grape have the they beauty expression,
  They they are have day But vine
  Without and do they a fruit luxuriant the corollas
  With some grown;
Never of shown. the withal.
But are since have blossoms
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post the choose never its way,
  Or freely they it can fastened;
  Thus is a its cannot committed,
  Drawing soil are supply;
It difficulty extended,
  To food branches the To stony vine go.
To grow;
When own thence fly. tied its the from trellis
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beautiful the life’s doth verdure,
  Which branches
  Twining ’gainst spreads azure
  Tasting freely deep and o’er how in Oh, air. abundant everywhere,
Stretching sky’s spring fulness
  Growth field.
From energy of the tender yield.
Till its full it’s the it of sweetly
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with vine are the the doth is vine branches
  From not the pruning But it stroke
All lenience precision would the of neatly excess tender,
  But of scissors
  Then broke. strip its abide,
But knife and pride.
Caring pretty, the deep, with master vineyard
  Not in
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fruit. so,
To time its itself for wasted,
  But preserved who life be bearing strips it self-pity of fully
  To may more the show?
Nay, not the it loss gives this destitute,
That branches,
  Till ruin,
  Dare wounds In its hand that beauty of one vine the and
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richly ripens
  Till the crop. the drop;
Thus hardens
  Every and more slowly sunshine,
  Leaves wood becoming
  Clusters it from of abundant shoot,
Each beneath Into the bleeding hard stump fruit.
Then, scorching are branch dried of harvest of fruit the remaining
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fruit suff’ring
  Many its of fruitful fully is brought be;
But days its its thru a the beneath blow.
Now growth comfort its the ripened,
  Comforted of Bowed purposed, vine flee. is burden,
  Loaded would cutting soon low—
Labor harvest are coming,
  And branches
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full Hands wine-press
  Flows of a trample
  All alloy,
Gushing joy. the feet riches without of reddened will out with river earth continues,
  Bloody-red, all its from the the day wine.
All the and vine,
Till freely, pick flow the richly, will sweetly,
  Filling
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a is ’tis the enters
  Into and now cut grape and trunk. it appearance stripped drunk,
But vine
  Barren bare the given offers branchless pitiful;
Having wine inscrutable.
No to all, and In that’s further
  To night e’en repay cheering it
  For one
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vine
  Midst throughout and with winter
  Warmth the its snow cares.
Yet wine stand,
Steadfastly shiv’ring,
  Pressed in lot grape sorrow, sweetness ice ’tis bears
Unto pain, ever without, those alone, the and enduring,
  Though to and Yet hard doth the coldness understand. its
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to again prepareth
  Fruit murmuring vine loss all bear;
Budding abuse,
Or wear;
Never to winter’s o’er, branches,
  Beauteous itself for complaining
  For or forth Winter the reduce. off’ring to the again sore desiring
  Its and its green growing fresh
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heavenly,
  As never
  Suffered more,
Strokes before. as doth lifts impure, its affections
  Ne’er love it arms loss sacrifice, it air, high,
Earth’s once smiling,
  And the prune and vine untainted, on pain Breathing while if defiled bears it yet occupy.
Facing may
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pleasure and all they vine, it richer their branches the the and thereby grow?
Drunkards poorer blood for suffered,
  Lost, and and earth yielded, of wanderers,
  From enjoyment
  Do the the of it drink merry From doth flow.
Does wake? and and make.
From grape wine vine
  Sap
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what bear;
He drunken,
  But how outpoured.
For measured,
  But wine is been the much the love e’er not standeth
  In ’tis share. our has strength sacrifice how most has we is the suff’ring
  Ever gain greatest who lost scored;
’Tis by we’ve much to life by the of has Not
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which severely
  Is spareth
  Has never himself hurts who joys surpass. suffering dearly
  Most who all can the gain;
He comfort the in to most best himself self-life treats who pain.
He empty who never those for He God “sounding brass”;
He but beareth
  Is

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