Underneath the Imperial Bank of Canada pediment (circa 1923) sits a sculpture of Musidora. The depiction of the bathing woman comes from a poem entitled "Summer" which was written by Scottish poet James Thomson in 1727. In the poem, a young man accidentally sees a young woman bathing naked, and is torn between his desire to look and his knowledge that he ought to look away.
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