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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Wandering is praised as the truest pursuit, turning uncertainty, karma, and Robert Service's gold-seeking into a philosophy of leaving.
The page treats sight as an ethics of movement: wandering, chance, grace, delivered strength, danger, temperal footing, making your walk, and Robert Service's search for gold all argue for leaving what one does not love when another path appears.
'Sight' makes wandering a vocation: 'Of all the things your going for / Wandering is the best,' 'The unknowing place / Or it's movement through chance,' which 'Like grace it sends / Delivers strength.' It counsels caution toward inheritance - 'Watch with danger what the old have bought' - and care in motion, 'when you set your temperal feet down / to saunder where you MAKE YOUR walk.' The ethic is sealed by Robert Service: 'it's mot the gold,. It's the looking for it,' and the closing permission to 'never be afraid to leave what you don't / love; especially when you see something else / that you do....' This reading stays provisional: the page is needs-followup, with only partly legible handwriting around the chance/calling and grace/strength material. Source spellings 'temperal,' 'saunder,' and 'mot' are preserved.