unblest O God, unblessing and

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