Susan Francis Harrison - Ottawa, Ontario - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

Inscription on the plaque:

Parcours des poètes
Poet's Pathway

Lines from October
Susan Frances Harrison (1859-1935)

Opaque and dry glows the autumn sky with a blue that
in merged in shining,
No deep rich blue hue but a pallid blue that is veiled with
gray as for lining.
And in heart and mart there be need of art to keep a
grey world from repining.

The leaf is here but it grows full sere and it steadily
mottles and yellows,
And the chestnuts loom through a golden gloom that is
lit by the maple yellows...

While the leaves still cling may the heart still sing though
the trees in the storm be straining,
Their trunks showing black in the forest tract heaped
high with the frail fern's raining,
And the song is strong while the tissued throng faint
not nor wither is waning.

The poet's Pathway honours Canada's poets, especially Ottawa's historic poets, and the lands that inspired them. It memorializes the literary Heritage of the Confederation poets and francophone poets of the time –– the earliest voices of our distinctive Canadian tradition.

Le parcours des poètes rend hommage aux poètes du Canada, en particulier à ceux qui ont marqué l’histoire d’Ottawa, et aux paysages qui les ont inspirés. Il commémore l’héritage littéraire des « Poètes de la Confédération » et des poètes francophones de la même période — les premières voix distinctes de la tradition canadienne.

Parking is available at the Value Village at the corner of Bank Street and Walkley Road. Access to the trail is from the bottom of the transitway station's stairs at the following coordinates:

N 45 22.137 W 75 40.057.

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