Lo, earthen from vessels, only

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