like a river

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers
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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.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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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.
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I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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(Langston Hughes)
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