Let’s try the flavor of honey, my friend –
Is the nectar of plums your selection?
Perhaps for your money you’ll take clover honey –
Say which is your dish of perfection!

Does the flavor of buckwheat appeal to you, sir?
Are you partial to goldenrod’s yield?
Come name the sweet you regard as a treat,
Which flower that grows in the field?

But ah, then! Whatever the source of the nectar –
No matter how strong or how mild –
The flavor that’s best, far beyond all the rest,
Is the one that you knew as a child!