and God, unblessing unblest O

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