Canis Major

CANIS MAJOR

by Robert Frost

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.

Robert Frost had to be writing about the Greyhound.  The greatest of all dogs!