Thursday, December 09, 2004

Canis Major

Canis Major

The great Overdog
That heavenly beast
With a star in one eye
Gives a leap in the east.

He dances upright
All the way to the west
And never once drops
On his forefeet to rest.

I'm a poor underdog,
But to-night I will bark
With the great Overdog
That romps through the dark.

From "Complete Poems of Robert Frost", 1916


when it is dark enough,
you can see the stars.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson