O unblest unblessing God, and

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