O unblessing God, unblest and

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