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By Jack Joseph Smith

Sight Of all the things your going for Wandering is the best The unknowing place Or it's movement through chance Like grace it sends Delivers strength Good as song, Favored with karma the young should have. Watch with danger what the old have bought: Slightly move your own path or the screen Careful when you set your temperal feet down to saunder where you MAKE YOUR walk Stay the course,. as Robert Service wrote,. "it's mot the gold,. It's the looking for it" never be afraid to leave what you don't love; especially when you see something else that you do....

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AI Interpretation

GPT

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.


Claude

'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.