We Come in Childhood’s Joyfulness

We come in child­hood’s joy­ful­ness

[orig­in­al­ly

We come in child­hood’s in­no­cence]

We come as child­ren free!

We of­fer up

O God! our hearts

In trust­ing love to Thee.

Well may we bend in so­lemn joy

At Thy bright courts above:

Well may the grate­ful child re­joice

In such a Fa­ther’s love.

We come not as the migh­ty come:

Not as the proud we bow;

But as the pure in heart should bend

Seek we thine al­tars now.

Forbid them not

the Sav­ior cried

But let them come to Me;

O Sav­ior dear

we hear Thy call

We come

we come to Thee.

To Thee

Thou Lord of life and light

Amid the an­gel throng

We bend the knee

we lift the heart

And swell the ho­ly song.

How blest the child­ren of the Lord

Who wait around His throne

How sweet to tread the path that leads

To yon­der heav­en­ly home.