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Wasted?

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Think not of any one of them as wasted,     Or to the void like broken tools outcasted,--     Unnoticed, unregretted, and unknown.     Not so is His care shown.     Know this!--     In God's economy there is no waste,     As in His Work no slackening, no haste;     But noiselessly, without a sign,     The measure of His vast design     Is all fulfilled, exact as He hath willed.     And His good instruments He tends with care,     Lest aught their future usefulness impair,--     As Master-craftsman his choice tools doth tend,     Respecting each one as a trusty friend,     Cleans them, and polishes, and puts away,     For his good usage at some future day;--     So He unto Himself has taken these,     Not to their loss but to their vast increase.     To us,--the loss, the emptiness, the pain;     But unto them--all high eternal gain.

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