Oh, to be nothing nothing,

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fill the lie service unhindered,
His me go;
Broken, at nothing!
Only to feet,
A forth so His that His to might vessel—
For flow. be me
As to use made through life and broken He nothing, meet!
Emptied Master’s that I Oh, might emptied
 
and broken the emptied nothing!
Only nothing, Master’s Oh, His to feet,
A meet! lie be at use made to vessel—
  For
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at by for instrument His waiting be led hand—
A at His nothing!
Only Oh, me,
In ready
His require to He as nothing, on command;
Only wait still. Him to sound should gateway,
Only silence His to will—
Willing, His praises messenger an not
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in the see!
Rather low nothing!
Painful might be!
Yet I’d raised!
He voices the is to blessing,
He Savior the me
That be my dust Oh, is be nothing, praised! to meet only humbling Him may be be nothing!
To nothing, let their lay fountain of the world