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36 One common eye have these, one common tooth, And never does the sun with cheerful ray Visit them darkling, nor the moon's pale orb That silvers o'er the night. The Gorgous nigh, Their sisters these, spread their broad wings, and wreath Their horrid hair with serpents, fiends abhorr'd, Whom never mortal cou'd behold, and live. Be therefore warn'd, and let it profit thee To learn what else detestable to sight Lies in thy way, and dang'rous. Shun the Gryphins, Those dumb and rav'nous dogs of Jove. Avoid The Arimaspian troops, whose frowning foreheads Glare with one blazing eye; along the banks, Where Pluto rolls his streams of gold, they rein Their foaming steeds; approach them not, but seek A land far distant, where the tawny race