All bear a female face of pallid dye,

  And seven in number are the horrid band;

  Emaciated with hunger, lean, and dry;

  Fouler than death; the pinions they expand

  Ragged, and huge, and shapeless to the eye;

  The talon crook'd; rapacious is the hand;

  Fetid and large the paunch; in many a fold,

  Like snake's, their long and knotted tails are rolled.