This poem written by Langston Hughs is from the Harlem Rennassaince. In this poem Hughs is speaking of himself has his black anscestors and what they've been through. He writes about how black people were the first people to walk the earth and they've now made there way to America.
" 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."
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