Pauline Johnson

After an illness of two years' duration Miss Johnson died in
Vancouver on March 7, 1913. The heroic spirit in which she
endured long months of suffering is expressed in her poem
entitled "And He Said 'Fight On'" which she wrote after she
was informed by her physician that her illness would prove
fatal.

Time and its ally, Dark Disarmament
Have compassed me about;
Have massed their armies, and on battle bent
My forces put to rout,
But though I fight alone, and fall, and die,
Talk terms of Peace? Not I.

It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should
have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her
own request she was buried in Stanley Park, Vancouver's
beautiful heritage ofthe forest primeval. A simple stone
surrounded by rustic palings marks her grave and on this
stone is carved the one word "Pauline."

There she lies among ferns and wild flowers a short distance
from Siwash Rock, the story of which she has recorded in
the legends of her race. In time to come a pathway to her
grave will be worn by lovers of Canadian poetry who will
regard it as one of the most romantic of our literary
shrines.