by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing
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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.)

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

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This text was added to the website: 2005-07-06
Line count: 4
Word count: 38