O God, unblessing unblest and

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