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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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