O God, unblessing unblest and

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