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By Jack Joseph Smith

And HE said he would see us through that we must not fail And The student mans eyes Seemed be sail on a smile as he said, when we reach port I will get off The mail to the Cidney Times So for the seven days out of Fiji We rode on the dung above the Capricorn sea after we hit port We got the report That the "Hellship Trangie" was on the front page But for us the young man felt there still was a war to wage. For no quid at all and a meal of mutten small

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker recalls the engineer's support and the student's promise to write to the Cidney Times. After a passage toward Fiji, the speaker describes a newspaper report and the student's continuing wish to oppose exploitation.

The speaker places the student's smile and promised letter beside dung and poorly rewarded labor. The speaker leaves the young man looking toward a further conflict even after the ship reaches port. The revisions complicate the exact wording of the transition.

Claude

The engineer 'said he would see us / through', the student promises to send 'The mail to the Cidney Times', and after port 'the "Hellship Trangie" was on / the front page'. It ends 'For no quid at all / and a meal of mutten small'.

The newspaper story gives the men a kind of vindication, but for the student 'there still was a war / to wage'. The last lines match the collection's title, a trip paid for with almost nothing.