Negro Speaks of Rivers
Ive known rivers:
Ive known rivers a as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human rivers
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young
I built my hut he go 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 Lin
went down to New Orleans, and Ive seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the su
Ive known rivers:
A, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Langston Hughes