Down Headlong From Their Native Skies

Verse 1

Down headlong from their native skies
The rebel angels fell,
And thunderbolts of flaming wrath
Pursu’d them deep to hell.

Verse 2

Down from the top of earthly bliss
Rebellious man was hurl’d
And Jesus stoop’d beneath the grave
To reach a sinking world.

Verse 3

O love of infinite degree!
Unmeasurable grace!
Must heaven’s eternal Darling die
To save a traitorous race?

Verse 4

Must angels sink for ever down,
And burn in quenchless fire,
While God forsakes his shining throne
To raise us wretches higher?

Verse 5

O for this love let earth and skies
With hallelujahs ring,
And the full choir of human tongues
All hallelujah sing.