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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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