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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The speaker praises wandering and asks for courage to leave a place or life that has lost its appeal.
The speaker connects wandering with chance, calling, grace and strength. Robert Service's search for gold supports the attention to pursuit, and And always extends the instruction to leave what one does not love. The restored Then again is the calling belongs to this sequence; other omitted marginal words do not establish a separate argument.
'Sight' praises wandering: 'Of all the things your going for / Wandering is the best / The unknowing place / Or it's movement through chance', then 'Then again is the calling / Like grace it sends / Delivers strength'. It warns 'Watch with danger what the old have bought' and to take care 'to saunder where you make your walk', cites Robert Service ('it's not the gold, It's the looking for it'), and ends 'And always never be afraid to leave what you don't / love; especially when you see something else / that you do....'
The poem sets wandering and chance beside a sense of calling, treating both as gifts that bring strength. Its short opening lines give way to longer advisory ones, ending in plain, open-ended encouragement to leave what one does not love. The Service quotation anchors the idea that searching matters more than finding.