He said there were no more Alps,
No more Pyrenees.
He never said there were no more Rocky Mountains.
THE CHRISTIAN BECOMES SUN-WORSHIPPER ALSO
XXIII. THE SUN-WORSHIPPER
“I drink to America as she was before 1492,” said Vachel, lifting high his coffee cup.
“I drink to her as she was before the Red Man came.”
“And I drink to her as she was before the Mound-builders came——”
“And I drink to her as she was in the days of the mountain-top tribe when a man and his family lived together on a mountain-top and the rule was one peak to one family, and the eagles were tame and carried the mail.”