I am not earth-born, though I here delay; Hope’s child, I summon infiniter powers, And laugh to see the mild and sunny day Smile on the shrunk and thin autumnal hours; I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me,— If my bark sinks, ’t is to another sea.
--A Poet's Hope, by William Ellery Channing
The spiritual center of the Mess. Easily accessed by going out from the Transit Nexus. A vast, complicated orrery?, a model of the whole Mess, with the Cube Tree prominently displayed.