It ends with the declaration that the speaker's soul has grown deep.
This work appeared in the Crisis 5 years before the publication of its author's first collection in 1926, in it the speaker is lulled to sleep, hears the singing, and sees the "muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset" as Abe Lincoln goes down to New Orleans on one of the title entities-they are ancient, and older than the flow of blood. It ends with the declaration that the speaker's soul has grown deep. FTP identify this poem about the Euphrates, the Congo, the Nile, and the Mississippi, a work by Langston Hughes.
This work appeared in the Crisis 5 years before the publication of its author's first collection in 1926, in it the speaker is lulled to sleep, hears the singing, and sees the "muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset" as Abe Lincoln goes down to New Orleans on one of the title entities-they are ancient, and older than the flow of blood.
The Negro Speaks of Rivers