{"id":131,"date":"2015-07-08T20:33:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/americanlit2x22x1\/?post_type=chapter&p=131"},"modified":"2017-03-20T22:44:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T22:44:05","slug":"the-negro-speaks-of-rivers","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-english2\/chapter\/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers\/","title":{"raw":"The Negro Speaks of Rivers","rendered":"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"},"content":{"raw":"

by Langston Hughes<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\nI've known rivers\r\nI've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the\r\nflow of human blood in human veins.\r\n\r\nMy soul has grown deep like the rivers.\r\n\r\nI bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.\r\nI built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.\r\nI looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.\r\nI heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln\r\nwent down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy\r\nbosom turn all golden in the sunset.\r\n\r\nI've known rivers\r\nAncient, dusky rivers.\r\n\r\nMy soul has grown deep like the rivers.","rendered":"

by Langston Hughes<\/em><\/p>\n

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I’ve known rivers
\nI’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
\nflow of human blood in human veins.<\/p>\n

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.<\/p>\n

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
\nI built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
\nI looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
\nI heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
\nwent down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy
\nbosom turn all golden in the sunset.<\/p>\n

I’ve known rivers
\nAncient, dusky rivers.<\/p>\n

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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