unblest unblessing O God, and

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