from vessels, only earthen Lo,

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