How many rivers are mentioned in “the negro speaks of rivers”?

explanation:

the poem connects four great rivers in the middle east, africa, and , congo, nile and the mississippi. his purpose was to show the movement of the negro through time.

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,

he describes the bird as "stately."

i hope this

~ash belle