unblessing unblest God, O and

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