 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 - Side 1541799Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 468 sider
...•nat very point of dense wood. CHAPTER II. Ho;7 skiliully it builds its cell, How neat it spreads the wax, And labours hard to store it well, With the sweet food it makes. Watts' Hymns for Children. THE next t.iing was to ascertain which was the particular tree... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 sider
...my nurse's arms I was taught to sing, — ' 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 neatly spreads the wax ; And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes ! ' " A loud... | |
 | William True Sleeper - 1861 - 194 sider
...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."... | |
 | 1861 - 438 sider
...children, for whose sakes How skillfully «lie builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In work of labor or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still Kor idle humls... | |
 | Juvenile hymn book - 1862 - 266 sider
...day, From every opening flower 1 2 How 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. 3 In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle... | |
 | mrs. M J H. Hollings - 1863 - 480 sider
...boy or girl does not know these lines : — " How doth the little husy hee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower....builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And lahours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes." No doubt you have all tasted that sweet... | |
 | Hymnals - 1863 - 168 sider
...more. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF.— c. M 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... | |
 | 1863 - 218 sider
...every opening flower ! 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. In works of labor or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.... | |
 | Selection - 1863 - 108 sider
...the day From every op'uing 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... | |
 | Easy rhymes - 1864 - 176 sider
...keeper be, Every moment watch o'er me. 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, In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For... | |
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