God, unblest unblessing O and

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