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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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