 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
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1870 - 138 pages
...the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every open flower 1 How skil-ful-ly she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax, And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes 1 In works of labour, or of skill, I would... | |
 | Hymns - 1871 - 330 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. In works of labour or of skill I would... | |
 | Child - 1871 - 328 pages
...Im-prove each shi-ning hour ; And J ga-ther ho - ney all the day, From ev' - ry op' -ning flow'r! 3E II 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... | |
 | Devotional literature - 1872 - 152 pages
...all the day From 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...works of labor, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satun finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or works, or healthful play, Let my... | |
 | John Francis Campbell - Ballads, Gaelic - 1872 - 268 pages
...ev'ry opening flow'r ! 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.... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 88 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. In works of labour and of skill I would... | |
 | John Francis Campbell - Ballads, Gaelic - 1872 - 274 pages
...little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry opening flow'r ! 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... | |
 | Cyrus Augustus Bartol - Ethics - 1872 - 424 pages
...animals themselves artists, into whom a taste for beauty descends ? Watts writes of the bee, — " How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! " No, says the theologist ; nothing but instinct. But wiser science discovers voluntary intelligence... | |
 | William A. Pope - 1873 - 96 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. In works of labour or of skill, I would... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Congregational churches - 1873 - 920 pages
...From every opening flower ! 2. How skillfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax I And labors hard to store it well, With the sweet food she makes. 3. In works of labor or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still For idle... | |
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