The Negro Speaks of Rivers and I, Too

(詹’斯’)蘭斯’’休斯(1902－1967)’個’’’藝’’’’’’’詩’’’’散文’’’’’’說’’’’’’選集’’’’’’’’國文學翻譯’’抒情詩’’報’’欄’’’’國際’’有盛’’早’’輕’’’’詩’’’’’’詩’黑’談’’’1921’’’’’’機’’’1926’’’第’’詩集’’倦’黑’民’’問’’休斯’’萊’文藝’興最有天賦’詩’之’’’’國黑’’’’傳統中’掘’藏’休斯’生’’’’部詩集’’’’我’’最’’1925’’’’’’黑’’中’它’對’爾’’’’曼’’我’唱’國’’詩’’應’’’“膚’較黑’’’”’唱’首’國之’而’’’’國’據應有’’’’

黑’談’’

我熟’’’’

我熟’像’’’樣’老’’’’

比’騰’’類’管裏’’’’’老’’’’

我’’魂’變’’’’’’’’

我’’’幼’’’’中’’晨’’’’’分’

我把’’’’剛’’’’潺潺’’’誘我’’夢’’

我’賞尼羅’’’’邊’立’’塔’

我聽見’’’比’’’唱’當’’’’’順’’’

’奧爾’’我’見

它渾’’’膛’’照中’著’’’

我熟’’’’

’老’’’’’’’

我’’魂’變’’’’’’’’

我’

我’’唱’國’

我’’那膚’較黑’’’’

當’’’’’

’們’讓我’’’’飯’

’’我’’’

’’’香’

’’’健壯’

’天’當’’’’

我’坐’’’’’

’那’’

’’敢

對我講’

“’’’’飯’”

’’’

’們’’’我’’麼’’

’而’’羞’’’

我’’’’國’

’

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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.

I, Too
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.

Besides.
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed’
I, too, am America.

’黑’談’’’’’我’’ The Negro Speaks of Rivers and I, Too

’黑’談’’’’’我’’
The Negro Speaks of Rivers and I, Too