unblest unblessing O God, and

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