Canis Major
Lyrics: Robert Frost
Music: Don Ray
Canis Major by Robert Frost (1925)
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.
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