Inviolable.

sniffing the trace of air!

These were the swift to harry;

These the keen-scented;

These were the souls of blood.

pallid the leash-men.

DEUX MOVEMENTS

1. Temple qui fut

2. Poissons d'or.

FROM A THING BY SCHUMANN

THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF T.E. HULME

PREFATORY NOTE

 In publishing his Complete Poetical Works at thirty,[1] Mr Hulme has set an enviable example to many of his contemporarieswho have had less to say.

They are reprinted here for good fellowship; for good custom, a custom out of Tuscany and of Provence; and thirdly, for convenience, seeing their smallness of bulk; and for good memory, seeing that they recall certain evenings and meetings of two years gone, dull enough at the time, but rather pleasant to look back upon.

As for the "School of Images," which may or may not have existed, its principles were not so interesting as those of the "inherent dynamists" or of Les Unanimistes, yet they were probably sounder than those of a certain French school which attempted to dispense with verbs altogether; or of the Impressionists who brought forth:

 "Pink pigs blossoming upon the hillside"; 

"Pink pigs blossoming upon the hillside";

or of the Post-Impressionists who beseech their ladies to let down slate-blue hair over their raspberry-coloured flanks.

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