Well-Educated Mind Poetry Reading List discussion

This is a pleasant, beautiful poem connecting African Americans through the story of the great rivers, from the ancients to the present (1920s). In every river noted, beginning with the Euphrates, and the Congo, the Nile, the Mississippi, the black man has been, part of that history. The narrator says that his soul has grown deep like the rivers -- (have become part of the history and the story that the rivers tell).