O unblessing unblest and God,

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