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As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing

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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Date added to the website: 2005-07-06.

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