unblest and O unblessing God,

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