I've known rivers: <br />I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the <br /> flow of human blood in human veins <br /> <br />My soul has grown deep like the rivers. <br /> <br />I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young <br />I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. <br />I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. <br />I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln <br /> went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy <br /> bosom turn all golden in the sunset <br /> <br />I've known rivers: <br />Ancient, dusky rivers. <br /> <br />My soul has grown deep like the rivers.<br /><br />Langston Hughes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/negro-speaks-of-rivers/
