The Negro Speaks of Rivers
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
5. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
9. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New
15. Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
19. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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