unblest God, unblessing O and

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