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Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.

210. As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing

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.)