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1239 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 its Traveller. Edited by Peter Carter
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