unblessing unblest and O God,

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