The lady with the little white dog

                        The lady  with

                         A little white dog

                         Perambulated my house

                        With the regularity of a planet -
                       
                        Sometimes in her transit

                        She would stop

                         And  pass the time of day -

                        Now she is  gone -


                      The smile and the coloured dress


                      I miss her sunny orbit

                      That  will now gladden other streets

                      As she walks her little white dog .