The Plant "Haemony"

The mystical meaning of "Haemony" is evolved by Coleridge in a passage which occurs in his *Statesman's Manual*, appendix B., and which cannot fail to interest the readers of *Comus*. "It is found in the study of the Old and New Testament, if only it be combined with a spiritual partaking of the Redeemer's blood, of which, mysterious as the symbol may be, the sacramental wine is no mere or arbitrary *memento*. This is the only certain, and this is the universal, preventive of all debasing superstitions; this is the true haemony ([Greek: haima], blood, [Greek: oinos], wine), which our Milton ha…