"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes

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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes.

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I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood

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in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were

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young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile

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and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln

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went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

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I've known rivers: Ancient dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes.