"A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing"

Ascension Day was a few months ago, and one of the hymns in the service was "A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing."  About a week after that, I transcribed the LSB and LW versions.  Between singing it and transcribing it, I found a few musical/textual connections.

The tune to which the hymn is sung is "Lasst uns erfreuen," and the first two phrases (which are the same) ascend:

Appropriately, some of the text sung to these ascending phrases mentions Christ's Ascension.  The first two lines of the third verse are "To them the shining angels cry, / 'Why stand and gaze upon the sky?'" and the first two lines of the fourth verse are "'You see Him now, ascending high / Up to the portals of the sky.'"  To some degree, this applies to the first line of the sixth verse too:  "O risen Christ, ascended Lord."

The LW version has a verse that the LSB version doesn't, and its first two lines also mention an ascent:  "O Lord, our homeward pathway bend / That our unwearied hearts ascend."