Beloved

My life must be Christ's broken bread
My love his outpoured wine
A cup o'erfilled, a table spread
Beneath his name and sign
That other souls, refreshed and fed,
May share his life through mine.

Albert Orsborn, ex-general of the Salvation Army.


I'd include the other verses as well, but I don't fully understand them. What is the winepress? Why is the fruitful vine a burden?