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It was here that he experienced the young “dawns.” This is a reference to the beginning of time or at least the beginnings of human civilization. Next, the speaker takes the reader to the “Congo.”
1 I’ve known rivers: 2 I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. 3 My soul has grown deep like the rivers. 4 I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. 5 I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. 6 I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
It also states that they were there from the very beginning, in the Cradle of Humanity, given in line five with “I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.” Showing this is what the true meaning of the poem is about.
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 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 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:
“I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.” Contrasts the speaker’s early experiences with his later achievements, emphasizing the journey and growth of his people.
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 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.
The first image describes the speaker as bathing in the Euphrates in times so ancient that the "dawns were young," meaning that the earth was so young that the sunrises could also be...