O unblest and unblessing God,

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