The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Crnac govori o rijekama

© 2005 photo by Carmen Ezgeta: rijeka Nil i piramida - The River Nile & Pyramid; Egipat - Egypt

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.

   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.

Poznajem rijeke:
Poznajem rijeke stare kao svijet i starije od
krvi sto prolazi ljudskim venama.

Moja je dusa dosegla dubinu rijeke.

Kupao sam se u Eufratu kada su jos zore bile mlade.
Sagradih kolibu kraj Konga koja me ljuljala u san.

Zagledao se u Nil i podigao piramide nad njim.
Slusao sam pjev Missisipija kad je Abe Lincoln
odlazio u New Orleans, te se zagledao u muljevita
njedra sto su se na zalasku sunca oblacila u zlato.

Poznajem rijeke:
Prastare, mracne rijeke.

Moja je dusa dosegla dubinu rijeke.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Crnac govori o rijekama

(1920)

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Langston Hughes

(1902 - 1967)