Lo, only earthen vessels, from

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