How Doth the Little Busy Bee Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

BUSY BEE (C.M.) Mitch Cervinka* 2000 Score

How doth the lit-tle bus-y bee
   Im-prove each shin-ing hour,
And gath-er hon-ey all the day
   From ev-ery open-ing flower!

How skill-ful-ly she builds her cell!
   How neat-ly spreads the wax!
And la-bors hard to store it well
   With the sweet food she makes.

In works of la-bor or of skill
   I would be bus-y too:
For Sa-tan finds some mis-chief still
   For i-dle hands to do.

In books, or work, or health-ful play
   Let my first years be passed,
That I may give for ev-ery day
   Some good ac-count at last.

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*Music: Composed 2000 by Mitch Cervinka.
Donated to the Public Domain for the unrestricted use of Christ's church.