The Negro Speaks Of Rivers

    Ive known rivers:

    Ive kno as the

    flow of human blood in human veins.

    My soul he rivers.

    I bates when dawns were young.

    I built my  near t lulled me to sleep.

    I looked upon t.

    I he Mississippi when Abe Lincoln

    doo Nes muddy

    bosom turn all golden in t.

    Ive known rivers:

    Ancient, dusky rivers.

    My soul he rivers.