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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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