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.”