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1819–1892

As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing

Walt Whitman

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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