Angel

O Lord, how wonderful in depth and height,

But most in man, how wonderful Thou art!

270With what a love, what soft persuasive might

Victorious o'er the stubborn fleshly heart

Thy tale complete of saints Thou dost provide

To fill the thrones which angels lost through pride!

He lay a grovelling babe upon the ground,

Polluted in the blood of his first sire,