vessels, Lo, only from earthen

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