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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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