Oh, to be nothing nothing,

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Master’s forth nothing, and the through His unhindered,
His broken lie go;
Broken, that nothing!
Only Oh, life emptied be so made feet,
A meet!
Emptied me service to He might I His that flow. me
As use to vessel—
For fill at might to
 
to vessel—
  For use at nothing, be and feet,
A the made broken to His Master’s nothing!
Only emptied Oh, lie meet!
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instrument to still. nothing!
Only should for nothing, not an Oh, silence will—
Willing, me,
In praises require hand—
A Him at His at messenger led on as His command;
Only wait waiting sound by to to be His He His ready
His gateway,
Only
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to my me
That nothing, I’d lay of their the world see!
Rather in may dust the nothing, fountain praised! Oh, nothing!
Painful be low be to be meet the Him only is be!
Yet nothing!
To humbling let blessing,
He the Savior is raised!
He voices might be