Vintners Know the Value of the Soil

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Vintners know the value of the soil. A wine's taste is determined from below. Love, like wine, takes sun and rain and toil. Each may vary; the soil remains just so. Nor can lovers choose the soil their roots Take hold in. That lies deeper than the will: In dreams, in loves long past, in lies and truths None knows, but from the taste that lives distill. Even so, the toil and the care -- 'Twixt sun and rain, 'twixt seasons bad and good -- Sustain the passion, beautiful to share, Destined to bring forth what joys it would. All loves bear fruit, that take the time to grow, Yielding most to those who patience know. Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.