As I Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing
(1901)- Music by Philip Dalmas
- Text by Walt Whitman
"As I Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing" is a setting of Walt Whitman by composer Philip Dalmas. The song is part of Dalmas' song group Four Songs from Whitman.
As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing
by 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.)
