 | 1799 - 396 ページ
...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 books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past ; That I may give, for... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1807 - 410 ページ
...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 be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle bands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 ページ
...! 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. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give fur... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 574 ページ
...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...works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too; For Hatan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. 4 In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1814 - 234 ページ
...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 be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past ; That I may give for... | |
 | Anne Tuke Alexander - 1819 - 116 ページ
...she 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... | |
 | 1820 - 310 ページ
...cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labours hard to stnre 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. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That 1 may give for... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 186 ページ
...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 healthful play. Let my first years be past,... | |
 | 1824 - 588 ページ
...little busy bee Improve each shining hoar, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flower. 2. How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she...still .'. •. For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first'years be past, That I may give, for ev'ry day, Some good account... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 170 ページ
...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...mischief still For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past ; That I may give for ev'ry day Some good account... | |
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In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. 
