Adventures of Tom Sawyer

That drop was falling when the pyramids were still new, and when Trojan fell, and when I established the rules of Rome, and when Christ crucified, and when he founded the Greek imperial invaders, when Columbus sailed, and when the Lixington massacre was still news. It is now falling, and it will continue to fall when all these things become in the era of history, dusk tradition, and swallow them with the heavy forgetfulness.