and unblest unblessing O God,

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