Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume III/Unguided Will

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Poverty.

CHAPTER XXXII.

THE ASSIGNATION.

God, in thy mercy, keep us with thy hand!
Dark are the thoughts that strive within the heart,
When evil passions rise like sudden storms,
Fearful and fierce! Let us not act those thoughts;
Leave not our course to our unguided will.
Left to ourselves, all crime is possible,
And those who seemed the most removed from guilt,
Have sunk the deepest!

Blanchard’s title is:

UNGUIDED WILL

In The New York Mirror (10th March 1838 ), as Evil Passions

Also recorded as Poverty