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.)