 And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play Let my first years be past, That I may...  New National First[-Fifth] Reader - Page 173by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1883Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 156 pages
...of labor, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For there is always something ill For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past ; That I may give for every day, Some good account at last. BEING KIND AND AFFECTIONATE. The God... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pages
...or of skill, I would be busy too ; ,,„ For idle hands will always find Some mischief still to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past; That I may give for every day Some good account at last. WATTS. THE POOR FLY. So, so, you are... | |
 | Daniel Paul Meek Hulbert - 1850 - 222 pages
...is it vain to make mock of a verse put into the mouths of girls and boys of all ranks — viz. : " In books, or WORK, or HEALTHFUL play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day, Some good account at last." And here, too, it is well for us again... | |
 | 1861 - 378 pages
...verse of the " Busy Bee :"— ' - In books and work and healthful play Let my first yean |>e past ; That I may give for every day Some good account at last ;" and we bestowed as much attention upon the settling of the " healthful play" as upon either of the... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1852 - 156 pages
...labor or of skill, I would be busy too, There always is some mischief still For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give, for every day, A good account at last. doESTiONS. — What does the busy bee improve 7 What doe* •he gather honey... | |
 | Robert Connel - 1853 - 210 pages
...labour or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Sa'tan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play Let my first years be past ; That I may give, for every day, Some good account at last. fiUESTlONi How many kinds of bees... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past ; That I may give for every day Some good account at last. Industry will ever bring its own reward.... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1854 - 472 pages
...labour or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. XXI. AGAINST EVIL COMPANY. WHY should... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1854 - 464 pages
...labour or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. XXI. AGAINST EVIL COMPANY. WHY should... | |
 | William Cort - 1855 - 148 pages
...la-bor or of skill I wou?d be bus-y too ; For Sa-tan finds some mis-chief still For i-dle hands to do. In books, or work, or health-ful play Let my first years be past, That I may give for eve-ry day Some good ac-count at last." ELEMENTAEY SOUNDS. F OURTH SERIES.... | |
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