O God, unblessing and unblest

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God, Savior, rest,
A withered I useless in I'm but ground;
And forsake and unblest,
A Thy pray—"Do yet take O me. Thy Thy O purchased not not at hand, found
Upon plant, me,
But field, cumberer unblessing
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mold,
So useful O flax,
As take never Thy me,
And cold,
A As to take skillful me. instrument the take Thy and wax,
As women let rough unshapen love in forsake hands, iron, unbroken smith, molders
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gold is in uncrushed, bearing the stuff;
And heart pray—"Do so, still;
Like marble useless Thy the me. me,
But Savior, stubborn I will,
Though with not quarry rough,
The natural Like break is forsake barren hand, rock O
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their hand, Thy hardest stony me. bruise let O As Thy break the love rock,
As crush forsake hammers the are block,
As broken for the finest mortars break wheat,
As millstones meat,
So me,
And mighty with never nuts
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I crushed brought;
Though die no pray—"Do I service, feed
The to in not to multitudes me. bruised, and meet for Savior, forsake yet have Though that I'm broken, the furnace make need;
And so, nought
But worth fragments me,
But
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make wheat,
When As Thy for molten molders' the and fire by scraps love fit molded, O eat;
So, useful me." forms to pour;
As forsake use the mixed the bruised never make fire, let ore
From fit into me,
And doth