There are sundry sorts of trees growing both in the East and West Indies (although none of the Nations of the West Indians, except the Mexicanes known any [use of writing, or Letters, before the Spaniards first entrance among them, […] Dures also among his admirable plants remembreth the Melt […] of the Mexicanes, or rather Metl […]

And through the bellowing Forum, And round the Suppliant's Grove, Up to the everlasting gates Of Capitolian Jove.

Hope may not, currently, shine brightly. The light on the hill may be dim, imperceptible. But if there is a light, it comes from the original idea of democracy as the only possible antidote to trapezocracy and to the calamities that it has in store for us.

Coordinate term: mint