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
| Alfred Neighbour - 1865 - 158 pages
...glass 'walls, the insect city exposed to view with all the population in action. There it may be seen How skilfully she builds her cell ; How neat she spreads...hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. Some of the hives are constructed chiefly for the purpose of promoting a philosophic observation of... | |
| Easy poetry - 1865 - 206 pages
...time To act a better part. TAYLOR. BUSY BEE. 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... | |
| George Park Fisher - 1866 - 430 pages
...refreshing visions of the days of childhood. "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 rich food she makes." These verses, written from recollection,... | |
| John Dudley Philbrick - 1866 - 174 pages
...to think of this, — THE LITTLE BUSY BEE. 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 I In works of labor, or of skill, I would... | |
| 1866 - 498 pages
...to swear. XX. 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 In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too ; For... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1866 - 128 pages
...learn to swear. 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 she builds her cell ! How neat ghe spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of... | |
| George Park Fisher - 1866 - 440 pages
..." How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ever}- opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell ; How neat she spreads her wax; And labors hard to store it well With the rich food she makes." These verses, written from recollection,... | |
| George Park Fisher - 1866 - 444 pages
...days of childhood. " How doth the little busy beo Improve each shining hour, Anil gather honey nil the day From every opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell; How neat i-he ppreads her wax; And labors hard to store it well With the rich food she makes." These verses,... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1866 - 144 pages
...IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the dny 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. In works of labour or of... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1866 - 128 pages
...little busy bee Improve each shining hour ; And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. 14. 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. LESSON XXXVIII. rule halves cheerful useless... | |
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