 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 - English poetry - 1807 - 410 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...skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. lu works of labour or of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...swear. SONG XX. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. HOW doth the little busy bee Improve euch shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spread* the wait ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...swear. SONG XX. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. [low 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 neal she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well VViih tiic sweet food she makes. In works... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 558 pages
...every opening flower! > I low skilfully site huilds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And lahmrs hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of lahour, or of skill, I would he husy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 574 pages
...the day Fi-om ev'ryop'niiig flower! i 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 Hatan finds some mischief still For idle... | |
 | John Ely - Readers - 1817 - 124 pages
...the day, From every opening flower ! With how much art she builds her ceS 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 rould be busy too ? For satan finds some mischief still, For... | |
 | Tracts - 1820 - 310 pages
...swear SONG XX. Jlgainst idleness and mischief. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour ; And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...How neat she spreads her wax ! And labours hard to stnre it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ;... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 734 pages
...such flagrant examples as these i — How skilfully she builds each n-11. How neat she spreads the wax, And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. Or ' maks,* which is a Scottish pronunciation, and even to the offspring 'of that conn. try would make... | |
 | 1824 - 588 pages
...little busy bee Improve each shining hoar, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry op'ning 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 .'. •.... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1824 - 36 pages
...Improve each shining hour, And gather, honey all the day, From every opening flower ! £0 DIVINE SONGS. And labours hard to store it well, With the sweet food she makes. t In works of labour and of skill I would be busy too, For §ntan ftnds some mischief still For Idle... | |
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