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acter-creation, human pathos and humour, which is unique. He stands 
by himself in Canadian literature, and his memory as a man and as a 
poet will be cherished with that of Lampman, both by the Society and 
by the Section to which he added lustre as a Fellow. 
“He has passed that last dread portage, 
This valiant voyageur, 
That place of the lonely mountains, 
That valley where all must fare; 
Not in the aged even 
With faltering steps and slow; 
But in the noontide high and bright, 
When life was all aglow: 
With his burden of hope on his shoulders, 
Wending where all must wend; : 
He came to that shoreway dim, where earth’s 
Longings and sorrowings end. 
And ‘ Leetle Lac Grenier’ all alone, 
Out on the mountain brow; 
You may call in vain to the heart so still: 
Oh, who will love you now? 
And the peasant folk in the evenings glad, 
Their simple loves may tell; 
And all in vain may ring again 
The bells of San Michel. 
For out on the shining water 
He has launched the shadow canoe; 
With Love and the soul of his little dead son, 
His paddlemen safe and true. 
But here on the shores behind him, 
Where the manly heart is still; 
He leaves a vacant place in our song, 
No other singer can fill, 
He who gave us, so Joyous, 
Amid all our doubtings and fears, 
Those heart-deep songs of a people, 
Brimming with laughter and tears.” 
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