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We have not only Himself, the glorified Son of God, in His divine fulness, out of whose fulness of life and grace we can draw, this is very wonderful, but there is something more blessed still. We have the Father, as the Husbandman, watching over our abiding in the Vine, over our growth and fruitbearing.
He precisely defined his peculiar merit when he said, "Princes have servants of all values and all sorts; some do their own business before that of their master; others do their master's and do not forget their own; but Villeroi believes that his master's business is his own, and he bestows thereon the same zeal that another does in pushing his own suit or laboring at his own vine."
Exact chronological data are lacking, but as in the Iliad he is the son of Zeus, he must have been adopted by the Greeks very early. In his new home he became the patron of the vine. In a vine-growing region any prominent deity may become a wine-god; but the special connection of Dionysus with wine in Greece suggests that in his earlier home he was somehow identified with intoxicating drinks.
A hot wind sprang up suddenly and swept with a rush down the night-walled cañon. It was the devil-wind of the desert, the wind that curls the leaf and shrivels the vine, even in the hours when there is no sun. When the devil-wind drives, men lie naked beneath the sky in sleepless misery.
The Vine is the weakest revolver observed by me, apparently exhibiting only a trace of a former power. In the Eccremocarpus the movement is interrupted by many long pauses. Very few tendril-bearing plants can spirally twine up an upright stick.
You might even, upon long acquaintance, take him for a great, though mad, Englishman, and trust him as an Englishman to the end; but the soil of his nature was that which grows the vine volcanic, breathing through its pores a hidden heat to answer the sun's. In person my father stood six feet five inches tall, and his shoulders filled a doorway.
From some lofty campanile, in a distant section of the silent city, sounded the angelus bell; and from the deep shadow of olive, vine, and myrtle that clothed the amphitheatre of hills, the convent bells caught and reechoed it. "Nature comes sometimes, And says, 'I am ambassador for God';"
The yard was swept, the barns shut up and padlocked. Not a single vine creeping up the walls; everywhere stone, wood, and iron! He took up the lantern and went up to the corner of the house. Behind was a second yard, where he heard the barking of a third dog, and a covered wall was built in the middle of it.
For which reason he made a very beautiful window for the Chapel of the High-altar in S. Domenico, a convent of his Order at Arezzo; wherein he depicted a vine that issues from the body of S. Dominic and embraces a great number of sanctified friars, who constitute the tree of the Order; and at the highest point is Our Lady, with Christ, who is marrying S. Catherine of Siena a work much extolled and of great mastery, for which he would accept no payment, believing himself to be much indebted to that Order.
Then he attached the new wires from the telephone to it and hid the connecting wires as best he could behind the swaying runners of a vine.
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