Over the green cold leaves and the rippled silver and the tarnished copper of its neck and beak, toward the deep black water beneath the arches, the swan floats slowly. Into the dark of the arch the swan floats and into the black depth of my sorrow it bears a white rose of flame. _F. S. Flint._ "DES IMAGISTES" CHARLES ASHLEIGH A new and well born recruit has been added to the ranks of the Insurgents. It is true he appeared before we did, but we welcome him before he welcomes us, and thus are things evened. THE LITTLE REVIEW, _The Masses_, _Poetry_, _The International_--all bearers of the sacred fire,--and now cometh _The Glebe_, heralding his approach with the chanting of many-colored strains. And, among the good things which _The Glebe_ has put forth, is a book of portent: _Des Imagistes_. The Imagistes form one of the latest schools, and it is meet that, before we read their work, we get some idea of their doctrine. Therefore I transcribe here some statements of representative Imagiste poets, which I have culled from _Poetry_, _The Egotist_, and other sources. Richard Aldington gives the following rules: I. Direct treatment of subject. We convey an emotion by presenting the object and circumstance of the emotion without comment. For example, we do not say, "O how I admire that exquisite, that beautiful, that--25 more adjectives--woman." But we present that woman, we make an "Image" of her, we make the scene convey the emotion.... II. As few adjectives as possible. III. A hardness as of cut stone. No slop, no sentimentality. When people say the Imagiste poems are "too hard" ... we know we have done something good. IV. Individuality of rhythm. We make new fashions instead of cutting our clothes on the old models. V. The exact word. We make quite a heavy stress on that. It is most important. All great poetry is exact. All the dreariness of nineteenth century poetry comes from their not quite knowing what they wanted to say and filling up the gaps with portentous adjectives and idiotic similes. Here is a definition by Ezra Pound which helps us: "An Image is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time."