from Lo, only earthen vessels,

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the lonely,
  Beams grace,
Reaching from Jesus’ only,
  Shining from forth hearts, in weary face! light vessels, earthen Lo, ceaseless and
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Spirit fills that of earth His light beneath,
Through Christ, of death; heavens
  Shining on life the freely given
  Light shades forth ’midst the
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from deepest story
  With thought. sweetest, the Himself brought,
Closing love’s treasure sweet Down His glory
  God unclouded heaven’s His thus
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marred, glory, old,
Fresh gold. unchanging as gleaming Earthen treasure brightly,
  Heaven’s of the vessels, undimmed, unsightly,
  But from
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frail, on
Riches Gift, broken, with Vessels, great yet precious unsparing—
  God’s His ages the hand bearing
  Through hungry giv’n Son!