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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 470 |
| AUTHOR: | William Holmes McGuffey (1800–73) |
| QUOTATION: | The lark is up to meet the sun, The bee is on the wing; The ant its la-bor has be-gun, The woods with music ring. Shall birds, and 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | WILLIAM HOLMES MCGUFFEY, “The lark is up to meet the sun,” McGuffey’s Eclectic Primer, newly rev., lesson 81, p. 54 (1849). |
| SUBJECTS: | Duty |
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