 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
 | Easy rhymes - 1864 - 176 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. WATTS. THE BEST FRIEND. WHO is it loves... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 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. WATTS. THE SONG OF THE BEES. watch for... | |
 | Thomas Pumphrey - 1864 - 372 pages
...vigour — all this is comprised in those beautifully simple and instructive lines of Dr. Watts' : " 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." adapted for a little child, but instructive... | |
 | Charles Vyse - 1864 - 176 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 ev'ry day Some good account at last. TABLE VII. Words of Four Syllables,... | |
 | Easy poetry - 1865 - 206 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. THE CONTENTED BLIND BOY. OH ! say,... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 538 pages
...labor 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...may give for every day Some good account at last. TRY AGAIN. 'T is a lesson YOU should heed, Try, try, try again; If at first you don't succeed, Try,... | |
 | Katherine Devereux Blake, Georgia Alexander - 1905 - 104 pages
...labor or of skill I would be busy too ; 10 For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed ; That I may give for every day IB CHARLES KINGSLEY ENGLAND, 1819-1875 The Lost Doll I once had a sweet little doll, dears, The prettiest... | |
 | Katherine Devereux Blake, Georgia Alexander - 1906 - 104 pages
...labor or of skill I would be busy too ; 10 For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed ; That I may give for every day ia Some good account at last. CHAELES KINGSLEY ENGLAND, 1819-1875 The Lost Doll I once had a sweet... | |
 | Newton Marshall Hall - 1906 - 518 pages
...of labor 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 pass'd ; That I may give for every day Some good account at last. — Isaac Watts. AGAINST PRIDE IN... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - 1907 - 280 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 ev'ry day Some good account at last. Isaac Watts. Deeds of Kindness Suppose... | |
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