Three Whitman Songs

Song Cycle by Alan Burrage Stout (b. 1932)

?. The harvest according  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
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.)

Text Authorship:

  • by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing"

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Total word count: 38