Risk is the hair that holds the tun

Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun
Seductive in the Air -
That Tun is hollow - but the Tun -
With Hundred Weights - to spare -
Too ponderous to sus - pect[^a1] the snare
Espies that fickle chair
Andmounts to be to atoms hurled - seats itself to be let go
By that perfidious Hair -

[^a1: sus - pect | suspect]

The "foolish Tun" the Critics say -
While that obliging - • enchanting - delusive Hair
Per - suasive[^a2] as Perdition,
Decoys it'sPassenger Traveller

[^a2: Per - suasive | Persuasive]