 | John Scott (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.) - 1839 - 84 pages
...thy name in vain, and learn to curse, and learn to swear. Compare with SONG XX, pages 22 and 23» 1, How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour, and gather honey all the day from every op'ning flow'r. 2, How skilfully she builds her cell! how neat she spreads the wax! and labours hard... | |
 | Henry Butter - 1839 - 190 pages
...and wake with Thee. INDUSTRY. How well the little busy bee Improves each shining hour ; And gathers honey all the day From every opening flower! How skilfully she builds her cell! How neatly spreads her wax ! And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1839 - 204 pages
...would not work, neither slmild he eat. — 2 Thessalonians, iii. 8, 9, 10. How doth the little busy beo Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! In works of labour and of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle... | |
 | 1840 - 188 pages
...did not know that; I thought it was bold ? I mil not fight with any one again. Against Idleness. . i. How doth the little busy bee, Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From fcvcry opening flower! «. Hotv skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labours... | |
 | 1840 - 122 pages
...industrious creatures, making the most of a sunshiny day ! They remind me of your pretty hymn : — " How doth the little busy bee Improve each, shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labours... | |
 | William Charles Cotton - 1842 - 434 pages
...set tiattj Ht fnntr in stoeetnesse. ECCLESIASTICUS xi. 3. Translation, at. 1603. PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. How doth the little busy Bee Improve each shining...she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax 1 And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes ! WATTS'S DIVINE SONGS. Je pique... | |
 | Juvenile miscellany - 1842 - 368 pages
...boys, come! We must leave Sir Gerold until this evening. BEES, AND THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF A HIVE. " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day, From every opening flower." " MY dear Mary," said Mrs. Graham to her little daughter, who, instead of learning her lesson, had... | |
 | 1856 - 1026 pages
...reading about the bees in one of my little books, and I have been getting off those pretty verses — ' How doth the little busy bee improve each shining...gather honey all the day from every opening flower ;' and I thought I should like to see the little creatures at work at their hives when they go in and... | |
 | 1853 - 892 pages
...As busy as a bee." Most of us have had this saying quoted to us., and learnt the hymn beginning— " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry opening flower I" But why say " as busy as a bee ?" We have seen how hard caterpillars work,... | |
 | John Ely - 1843 - 156 pages
...and went to school and learned his lesson very well, and the master said he was a very good boy. 6. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day, From every opening flower ! With how much art she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store... | |
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower... 
