How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. The Child's companion - Pągina 1541799Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1860 - 116 pągines
...every opening flower ! How skillfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes ! In works of labor or of skill, I would be busy, too, Lest there be found some mischief still For idle hands to... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1860
...•nat very point of dense wood. CHAPTER II. Ho.? skilfully it builds its cell, How neat it spreads the wax, And labours hard to store it well, With the sweet food it makes. Warts' Hymns for Children. THE next t.iing was to ascertain which was the particular tree... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1860
...•nat very point of dense wood. CHAPTER II. Ho;7 skiliully it builds its cell, How neat it spreads the wax, And labours hard to store it well, With the sweet food it makes. Watts' Hymns for Children. THE next t.iing was to ascertain which was the particular tree... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 328 pągines
...my nurse's arms I was taught to sing, — ' How doth the little busy Bee Improve each shining hour ; And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neatly spreads the wax ; And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes ! ' " A loud... | |
 | William True Sleeper - 1861 - 168 pągines
...every opening flower'. " How skillfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax, And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes ! " In works of labor, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do."... | |
 | 1861
...children, for whose sakes How skillfully «lie builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In work of labor or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still Kor idle humls... | |
 | Juvenile hymn book - 1862
...day, From every opening flower 1 2 How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax 1 And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. 3 In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle... | |
 | mrs. M J H. Hollings - 1863
...boy or girl does not know these lines : — " How doth the little husy hee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower....builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And lahours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes." No doubt you have all tasted that sweet... | |
 | Hymnals - 1863 - 151 pągines
...more. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF.— c. M How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour, or of... | |
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