 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. In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.  Songs for the Little Ones at Home - Page 110by Mary O. Ward - 1852 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
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...every opening flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! 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 doIn... | |
 | Isaac Watts - English poetry - 1807 - 410 pages
...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. lu works of labour or of skill, I would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...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, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 574 pages
...little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1814 - 234 pages
...hour; And gather honey all the dayi From ev'ry op'ning flow'r! COTTOS. . "*, *-• •• -• '" * " How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well, With the swcet food she makes. In works of labour, or of skill, I would... | |
 | Anne Tuke Alexander - 1819 - 116 pages
...spreads the wax I And labours hard to store it well ' With the sweet fopd, she makes In works ofi labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For satan finds some mischief stiff For idle hands to do. In books, or -yfork, or healthful playj., Let my first years be past, That... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - Readers - 1822 - 186 pages
...every opening flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! 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 folly finds some mischief still In books, or works, or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1824 - 170 pages
...little busy bee Improve each shining hour; And gather honey all the day, From every pp'ning flow'r! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax I *•].'. And labours hard to store it well, With the 'sweet food she makes. ••'+'• . 3. In... | |
 | 1825 - 366 pages
...busy bee Improve each shining hour; And gather hooey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flow'r '. n. Flow 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. In works of labour, or of skill, I... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 164 pages
...little busy bee Improve each shining hour; And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower 1 2. How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads...hard to store it well, With the sweet food she makes, 8. In work of Tabor or of skill, For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or work, or healthful play. Let... | |
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