Little Children, Come Away

Little children, come away,
From the Savior do not stay:
He is calling us today,
Calling us to Him.

Refrain

Quickly come, gladly come,
From the Savior do not stay;
Quickly come, O gladly come,
He is calling us today.

Little children once He blest,
Laid them in His arms to rest;
He of all our friends the best,
Bids us come to Him.

Refrain

Heed His saying, “Come to Me”;
Happy then we all shall be;
None can give us life but He,
Come, O come to Him.

Refrain

Author: Unknown

This children's gospel song appears in multiple 19th-century Sunday-school and hymn collections (often dated around the 1860s–1880s) without a credited author. No strong attribution to a specific writer such as Fanny Crosby, Anna Bartlett Warner, or Julia Ward Howe has been established; it is treated as anonymous or traditional in most hymnological sources.