1 Down headlong from their native skies The rebel angels fell, And thunderbolts of flaming wrath Pursu'd them deep to hell.
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.
3 O love of infinite degree! Unmeasurable grace! Must heaven's eternal Darling die To save a traitorous race?
4 Must angels sink for ever down, And burn in quenchless fire, While God forsakes his shining throne To raise us wretches higher?
5 O for this love let earth and skies With hallelujahs ring, And the full choir of human tongues All hallelujah sing.