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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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