 | Hymns - 1860 - 138 pages
...Is help to all the rest ; Then let us active be and true, • And do our little best. 167. Industry. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! How skillfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labors... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 pages
...cultivated enclosure. — Paley. 3. Against Idleness and Mischief. (To be read with simplicity of tone.) 1. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flow'r ! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labours... | |
 | Little poems - 1860 - 160 pages
...come to Winter's ear How widely wept, for oh ! how dear The lovely things he could condemn ! BUSY BEE. How doth the 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, In works of... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Canada - 1860 - 416 pages
...incoherency, imitating her mistress, repeated the first words her memory supplied her with — ' " How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day from every opening flower." ' Poor things, it was evident what their object was, but equally so that they... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1860 - 132 pages
...im-pr6ve' build§ some'thing gSth'er sprSadf hSalth'ful first hon'ey la'bor§ ac-count' year§ 1. How ddlh the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads her wax! t And labors... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1860 - 468 pages
...who have been selected to enjoy it. Jane, 1848 THE OAK OPENINGS. CHAPTER I. How doth the little lusy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower. Watts' Hymns for Children. WE have heard of those who fancied that they beheld... | |
 | William Hawkins - 1861 - 710 pages
...what are the lessons afforded to us by the bees 1 Joseph. — They remind me of Dr. Watts' hymn — " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower." Nancy. — They, in fact, use the gifts which their Maker and ours has given... | |
 | David Caughie - 1861 - 330 pages
...may we obtain an entrance into it? By Jesus Christ. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. (Tune—"Piety.") How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every op'ning flower. How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours... | |
 | William True Sleeper - Boys - 1861 - 194 pages
...handsome bow, and then, in a very clear voice and distinct utterance, spoke these beautiful stanzas:— " How doth the little busy bee * ^ Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower'. " How skillfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax, And labors... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 pages
...heard of your fame," replied the Prince ; " while yet in my nurse's arms I was taught to sing, — ' How doth the little busy Bee Improve each shining hour ; And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neatly spreads the wax ; And labours hard... | |
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! 
