"See, the Lord Ascends in Triumph"

During the Ascension Day service a few months ago, I found a lot of musical/textual connections in hymns about the Ascension.  Appropriately, in "See, the Lord Ascends in Triumph" (sung to the tune "Rex gloriae" ["The King of Glory" in Latin]), there are phrases about ascending and lifting sung to this ascending phrase (which is both the first and seventh musical phrase):

Phrases in the hymn that mention ascending or lifting and that are sung to this phrase include "See, the Lord ascends in triumph," "And the portals high are lifted," "While He lifts His hands in blessing," "He our Enoch, is translated" (the next line is "To His everlasting home"), "He has raised our human nature," and "By our mighty Lord's ascension."

About a week and a half after I sang this hymn in church, I transcribed the text, and I noticed something else.  The third verse ends with the lines "He our Enoch, is translated / To His everlasting home," the second half of which is sung to this phrase:

The "home" in the text is sung to a G note, and since the hymn is in G major, this is the tonic note, the "musical home" of the tune.