God, unblest O unblessing and

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