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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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