"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes

23/11/2025 1 min Temporada 1 Episodio 9
"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 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.