I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the Flow of human blood 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 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 Ancient, dusky rivers My soul has grown deep like the rivers