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As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing

by Walt Whitman, 1892

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.)

Published in Leaves of Grass
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