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By Jack Joseph Smith
Waiting
The good greatness
And the clean pleasure
without purpose
of man
Is only wandering
in the clouds
In the air is very fine
in all ways
Yet with feet on the ground
Many times thought
makes it better
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes greatness and pleasure without purpose as wandering in clouds, then places thought beside feet on the ground.
The poem connects airy wandering with a grounded act of thinking. It supplies no named person or event.
A second typed copy of 'Waiting', running from 'The good greatness' to 'Yet with feet on the ground / Many times thought / makes it better'.
This copy was checked letter by letter on its own scan; the same in and on readings hold here.