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 suspect the snare
Espies that fickle chair
And seats itself to be let go
By that perfidious Hair –

The “foolish Tun” the Critics say –
While that delusive Hair
Persuasive as Perdition,
Decoys it’s Traveller