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Hymns of the Atharva Veda, by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1895], at

HYMN XCV

An incantation against an undetected thief

1To heaven, as 'twere, have soared this man's two vultures,
  staggering, dusky hued.
 The Parcher and the Drier-up, the pair who parch and dry his
  heart.
2I verily have stirred them up like oxen resting after toil.
 Like two loud-snarling curs, or like two wolves who watch to
  make their spring:
3Like two that thrust, like two that pierce, like two that strike
  with mutual blows.
 I bind the conduit of the man or dame who hence hath taken
  aught.