unblest and unblessing O God,

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