"'Listen with care to this now , and a god will arm your mind. Square in your ship's path are Sirens, crying beauty to bewitch men coasting by; woe to the innocent who hears that sound! He will not see his lady nor his children in joy, crowding about him, home from sea; the Sirens will sing his mind away on their sweet meadow lolling. There are bones of dead men rotting in a pile beside them and flayed skins shrivel around the spot."
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Circe warmed Odysseus of this land. The sirens lured men to them, and they were told to shun them. As they approached Odysseus was tied to the pole of the ship so he could listen to the Sirens as they passed and his men plugged their ears moving past the beasts.
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