| Mary O. Ward - 1852 - 236 sider
...kissed his cheek as he looked on high And prayed to be pardoned for telling that lie. Ronirs. BUSY BEE. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads the wax, And labors hard to store it well "With... | |
| Julie Delafaye Bréhier - 1853 - 96 sider
...humming as they fly along. To-morrow, my' dear Lottie, you shall learn the pretty little hymn,— "' How doth the little busy bee ' Improve each shining hour. And gather honey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flower.'" LOTTIE'S TOILET. VERY morning Florence washed and dressed her little Lottie... | |
| 1845 - 396 sider
...You have long ago, I suppose, learned that pretty lesson of bee industry in the little hymn : — " How doth the little busy bee, Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all tue day From every opening flower." LITTLE ELLEN. LITTLE Ellen was one of the youngest who attended... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 472 sider
...right and wrong, by those who have been selected to enjoy it. June, 1848 THE OAK OPENINGS. CHAPTER I. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day, From every opening flower. Watts' Hymns far Children. WE have heard of those who fancied that they beheld a signal instance of... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - 1855 - 518 sider
...sinful children here, Then let me not be sent to hell, Where none but sinners are. •WAITS. 1370. CM 1. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower 1 2. How skillfully she builds her cell I How neat she spreads her wax ! And labors hard to store it... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - 1856 - 934 sider
...sinful children here, Then let me not be sent to hell, Where none but sinners are. YTATTS. 1370. CM 1. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! 2. How skillfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labors hard to store it... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 sider
...bite, For God hath made them so ; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 't is their nature too. Xx. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day, From every opening flower. For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. To God the Father, God the Son, And God the... | |
| Collection - 1856 - 120 sider
...Lends a moral to our race — Happy who such beauty sharing, Share alike thy simple grace. On Industry. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour ; And gather honey all the day, From ev'ry op'ning flow'r ! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours... | |
| Edward Fitch Underhill, Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 344 sider
...appreciation of the lateness of the hour, until he had put ice into their boot-legs and shirt-bosoms. jnt How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...hour And gather honey all the day From every opening -~ nine o'clock one evening, the members of the club had casually convened in the club-room, although... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 220 sider
...bee-hives. Mother said, ' ' Have you nothing to say to these pretty7 bees, Laura?" Then I said to them, " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gath'er honey all the day From e/er-y opc'ning flower ! " They had a most beautiful flower-bed to gather it from, quite close under... | |
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