"Honey-Guide"
(included in Gentlemen's Valentines, 1817)
The HoneyGuide, through Afric’s Groves,
In search of treasur’d Sweetness roves,
The Hive in deepest Wilds discovers,
And round it unremitting hovers,
Alluring, by her well-known cries,
Her human Friend to share the Prize:
So Fortune Sir to-night entreats
your Presence, to a Feast of sweets;
And if judicious in Selection,
you well observe her kind Direction,
She whispers that herself and Love
your grateful Guests through Life will prove.