"O Father, All Creating"

One of the hymns I sang in church a few months ago is "O Father, All Creating."  I noticed a small connection between the tune ("Aurelia") and the text in the third verse.  The first two lines of the third verse are "O Spirit of the Father, / Breathe on them from above."  (The hymn is in the marriage section of the hymnal; the "them" in the line refers to a newly wedded couple.)  The second half of the second line descends:

To some degree, this musically represents the Spirit's "Breath[ing] on them from above."