 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 - Page 1541799Full view - About this book
 | 1878 - 446 pages
...bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. How skillfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax,...hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes.' And then he draws the wise lesson of how we, too, should be busy, never having idle hands, but filling... | |
 | Devotional literature - 1872 - 152 pages
...mercy, Sown by youthful hands, 18 Be Busy. HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...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... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 88 pages
...shin-ing ac-count bu-sy health-fill builds 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 and of... | |
 | 354 pages
...little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! 2 How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads...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... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 pages
...Harvest home." 80.— THE BUSY BEE.— Watts. 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... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1885 - 304 pages
...And gathers honey all the day From every opening flower, From every opening flower, flower, flower, From every opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her whacks, And labours hard to store it well. With the sweet food she makes, With the sweet food she makes,... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...ISAAC WATTS. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! How skilfully siie builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet... | |
 | Children - 1893 - 112 pages
...one, sleep. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. 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 labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labor or of skill,... | |
 | 1895 - 328 pages
...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.... | |
 | Nature in literature - 1895 - 328 pages
...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.... | |
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