O unblessing and unblest God,

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