unblest unblessing and O God,

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