...mistress, repeated the first words her memory supplied her with — '"How doth the little busy bee improre 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 were unconscious of the...

...Children, with the Protestant ethic embedded obdurately in such rhymes as "Against Idleness and Mischief: How doth the little busy bee, Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower! In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands...

...To improve the shining hour - From Isaac Watts's (1674-1748) hymn "Against Idleness." First stanza: "How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining...gather honey all the day / From every opening flower!" 16.1228-29 (647:3-4). Mr Philip Beaufoy See 4.502-3n. 16.1232 (647:8). *The pink edition extra sporting...

...success, then apply them. Medina, Ohio. THE WORK-DAY OF THE BEE Every school child has learned the rhyme How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower ? To the practical beekeeper this is an important question which he frequently attempts f> answer by...

...Johnny. Go on, recite for me." He pressed a kiss against her temple, thanked her, and then quoted: " 'How doth the little busy bee improve each shining...gather honey all the day from every opening flower!' That was Isaac somebody-or-other, I disremember at the moment. But that's what you are, little Sarah,...

...refers to a nursery rhyme by Isaac Watts, reproductions are related to the following stanzas: How does the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And...honey all the day, From every opening flower! How skillfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labours hard to store it well With...

...232) 'Haw doth . . . at last' Isaac Watts (1674-1748), 'Against Idleness and Mischief, Divine Songs : 'How doth the little busy bee/ Improve each shining hour, /And gather honey all the day/From every opening flower!' 151 (p. 233) come with post-horses use a series of horses, the fastest...

...By day to read these wonders o'er, And meditate by nighty WATTS. SECTION IV. On Industry.. How does 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...

...barn. ROBERT LOWELL, (1917-1977) US poet. Mr. Edwards and the Spider, st. 1 , Poems Í938-/949(1950). How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower! ISAAC WATTS, (1674-1748) British hymn-writer. Against Idleness and Mischief, st. 1 , Divine Songs for...

...a pattern to the Christian world, and a blessing to the earth. 89 AGAINST IDLENESS AND SIISCltll.F. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey ull the day From every opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the...