The ransom was paid down; the fund of heaven,
Heaven’s inexhaustible, exhausted fund,
Amazing, and amazed, pour’d forth the price,
All price beyond: though curious to compute,
Archangels fail’d to cast the mighty sum: 240
Its value vast, ungrasp’d by minds create,
For ever hides, and glows, in the Supreme.
And was the ransom paid? It was: and paid
(What can exalt the bounty more?) for you.
The sun beheld it—No! the shocking scene,