O and unblest unblessing God,

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