 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
 | Henry Butter - 1839 - 190 pages
...and wake with Thee. INDUSTRY. How well the little busy bee Improves each shining hour ; And gathers honey all the day From every opening flower! How skilfully she builds her cell! How neatly spreads her wax ! And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of... | |
 | John Scott (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.) - 1839 - 84 pages
...all the day from every op'ning flow'r. 2, 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. 3, In works of labour or of skill. 4, In 4, books, or works, or healthful play, let my first jesrslie... | |
 | 1840 - 122 pages
..." How doth the little busy bee Improve each, shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell,...hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes." MARY. I suppose the sweet food she makes is the honey ; but I can never see any honey in the flowers.... | |
 | 1840 - 188 pages
...the day From fcvcry opening flower! «. Hotv skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food sho makes. in. In works 'of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief... | |
 | William Charles Cotton - 1842 - 434 pages
...Translation, at. 1603. PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. 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 1 And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes ! WATTS'S DIVINE SONGS. Je... | |
 | John Ely - 1843 - 156 pages
...the day, From every opening flower ! With how much art she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well, With the sweet food she makes. 7. In works of labour and of skill, I would be busy too ; For satan fiuds some mischief still, For... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1843 - 158 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 her wax, And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. 3. In works of labor or of skill, I would... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1843 - 578 pages
...internal economy of the hive is committed, and upon them the whole labor of the community devolves. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, She labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes — She gathers honey all the day From... | |
 | Bristol Sunday-school union - 1844 - 236 pages
...all the day From every op'ning flower ! 2 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. 3 In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle... | |
 | 1874 - 990 pages
...essential part of the glory of the bee in the days of our grandmothers was its wonderful ingenuity : — How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax 1 sang Dr. Watts, leading the chorus of the bee's didactic admirers, — immediately adding, too, as... | |
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