 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
 | Isaac Watts - 1867 - 180 pages
...vain, And learn to curse, and learn to swear 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... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1867 - 136 pages
...each spread skil-fiil-ly year sweat mis-chief 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... | |
 | William Gardner (headmaster of St. Crysostom's sch, Liverpool.) - 1867 - 92 pages
...wore a very peculiar dress, which much became them. You must go immediately. It was a very fine sight. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax. Thursday. LEARN AND WRITE— pil'-chard, a fish. pil'-fer-ing, stealing little things. pil'-lage, plunder.... | |
 | Child - 1868 - 224 pages
...Dear child, come out and see." THE 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... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1834 - 80 pages
...the day From every opening 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... | |
 | John Green - 1870 - 304 pages
...little busy bee Improve each ihining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'iy opening flower ! 2 How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads...her wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sws K>d she makes. J In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1870 - 138 pages
...all the day From every open flower 1 How skil-ful-ly she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax, And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes 1 In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mis-chief still For idle... | |
 | Methodist scholars - 1870 - 78 pages
...day From every opening flower. 2 How skilfully she builds her cell I How neat she spreads the wax I 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... | |
 | E S H. Bagnold - 1870 - 182 pages
...With whom thy servants dwell, Though cold and green the turf is spread Above their narrow cell.' ' How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax !' Cense, s. Cense, va Sense, s. Public rate. To perfume with Power of perception, incense. meaning,... | |
 | Hymns - 1871 - 330 pages
...he'll love me again. 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 labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour or of... | |
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