57 The Negro Speaks of Rivers 黑人談河流
I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human rivers
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphratesp 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.
﹝美﹞休斯（Langsten Hughes）