grape vine the contemplate Let us

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

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