and unblessing O God, unblest

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