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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./
What is The Negro Speaks of Rivers?