Such company, such company,
As keeps this young nymph, Joy!
THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS
THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS
(To W. E. B. DuBois)
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.