O unblessing and unblest God,

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