vessels, only earthen Lo, from

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