vessels, Lo, only earthen from

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