 | Edith Keeley Stokely, Marian Kent Hurd - 1905 - 388 pages
...sleepily down to her breakfast. Theodore met her with suspicion lurking in his eye, but sang carelessly: ' The lark is up to meet the sun, — The bee is on the wing: The ant its labours has begun Say Sis, who cut all those weeds last night? " "Theodore," said Miss Billy pathetically,... | |
 | John Tilden Prince - English language - 1910 - 272 pages
...flower that blooms. 22. A fool speaks all his mind, but a wise man reserves something for hereafter. 23. The lark is up to meet the sun, The bee is on the...ant its labor has begun, The woods with music ring. 57. Kinds of Sentences according to Form. We have learned about different kinds of sentences according... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...rove, My stock of wisdom I'll improve, Nor be a butterfly. • Adelaide O'Keefe [1776-1855] MORNING THE lark is up to meet the sun, The bee is on the wing, The ant her kbor has begun, The woods with mus.i«-ring. Shall birds and bees and ants be wise, While I my... | |
 | Marcus Dickey - 1919 - 488 pages
...country like a water-bug, and a perfect nebula of new subscribers bespangles our subscription list; The lark is up to meet the sun, The bee is on the wing; The Democrat it has begun To go like everything." A team ran away at Perkinsville. "The horses got down... | |
 | Idora McClellan Moore - Alabama - 1921 - 218 pages
...the switch, then let his arms fall heavily at his side, made a stiff bow, and jerked out his words : "The — lark — is — up — to — meet — the — sun, The — bee — is — on — its — wing, The — ant — his — labor — has — begun, The — woods — with — music... | |
 | Herbert Quick - Authors - 1923 - 520 pages
...before he understood their words. He tingled to the tips of his grimy baby fingers as he recited : "The lark is up to meet the sun, The bee is on the...ant its labor has begun, The woods with music ring." He had no faintest impression of what "woods" are; but connected the word with the sticks his father... | |
 | Willard Allen Colcord - Animals - 1925 - 520 pages
...the honey and the bee-bread which they have gathered and stored up so carefully during the summer. The lark is up to meet the sun ; The bee is on the...bees, and ants be wise, While I my moments waste? O let me with the morning rise, And to my duty haste. Early to bed, early to rise, Makes a man healthy,... | |
 | Emma Bell Miles, David E. Whisnant, Roger D. Abrahams - History - 1985 - 260 pages
...only he generally pronounces it [9] "summerny," and some one else starts out in a vigorous sing-song : "The lark is up to meet the sun, The bee is on the wing." However, there are occasional surprises, mostly traceable to the mountaineer's Mother Goose. "I'm got... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...The Forged Letter of General Robert E. Lee (1914) and its Supplementary Paper (1915). Duty Earth 470 The lark is up to meet the sun, The bee is on the...bees, and ants, be wise, While I my mo-ments waste? O let me with the morn-ing rise, And to my du-ty haste. WILLIAM HOLMES MCGUFFEY, "The lark is up to... | |
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The lark is up to meet the sun, The bee is on the wing, The ant her labor has begun, The woods with music ring. Shall birds and bees and ants be wise, While I my moments waste? Oh, let me with the morning rise, And to my duties haste. 
