I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow
of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
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 Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden
in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
Langston Hughes
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Kenneth R. Jenkins: This one of my favorites by Hughes.
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