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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 251 of 382 · Whispers of Heavenly Death

As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing

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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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