God, unblessing unblest O and

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