From Book III of John Milton's "Paradise Lost," in which God asks his angels for a volunteer to save them by dying. The angels take a huge step backwards, then God's son steps up and says he'll do it. An angel party ensues.
This long sufferance and my day of grace
they who neglect and scorn,
shall never taste.
He with his whole posterity must die,
unless for him, some other pay
death for death.
Where shall we find
such love,
which of ye will be mortal
to redeem man’s crime?
All the Heavenly choir stood mute:
on man’s behalf none appeared.
I offer, on me let thine anger fall;
Account me man; for his sake I’ll leave
Now to Death I yield, and am his due
all of me can die, yet that debt paid.
Then the multitude of angels with a shout
sung omnipotent, immortal, infinite.
Their happy hours in joy and hymning spent.
Thus they in Heaven, above the starry sphere.
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