As I Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing

by Walt Whitman · 1881-1882
Published 01/07/1881

AS I watch'd the ploughman ploughing,

Or the sower sowing in the fields, or the harvester harvesting,

I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies;

(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)

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