unblessing and unblest God, O

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