The definition of the capitalized word in the statement is "lessen". In this context, the sentence is saying that the rivers cannot lessen the love of that person.
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Punctuation is required in all of the paper
The answer is there.
There refers to a place or thing
Their is what you use to say something belongs to someone
They're is talking about people
The author's purpose is to give an example of a disadvantage or unfairness between being colored or being white and make the reader more sympathetic to the circumstance.