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As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing.

by Walt Whitman

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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