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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 accord- ing.) |