unblest and unblessing God, O

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