"Up through Endless Ranks of Angels"

Around the time of Ascension Day a few months ago, I happened to be transcribing hymns about the Ascension.  I found a few musical/textual connections in "Up through Endless Ranks of Angels," sung to the tune "Ascended Triumph."

The beginning of the first and third musical phrases (which are the same) ascends:

In the first verse, the lines sung to these ascending phrases mention Christ's Ascension:  "Up through endless ranks of angels" and "To His heav'nly throne ascending."

The fifth musical phrase descends:

and in the first verse, the line there is "Christ looks down upon His faithful."  Instead of pairing of an ascending musical phrase with a line about Christ's Ascension, this is sort of the opposite: a line about Christ's looking down, sung to a descending phrase.