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When Nature Wants a Man

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When Nature Wants A Man is a poem by Angela Morgan published in Forward, March (1918) by John Lane Company.

Adaptations

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In Spiritual Leadership (1967), John Oswald Sanders published a poem beginning with the words "When God wants to drill a man" and credited it to author anonymous. Sanders' version replaces Angela Morgan's "Nature" with "God" and her feminine pronouns with masculine ones.[1]

Excerpt from Sanders' 1967 Version[2]

When God wants to drill a man
And thrill a man
And skill a man,
When God wants to mold a man
To play the noblest part;
When He yearns with all His heart
To create so great and bold a man
That all the world shall be amazed,
Watch His methods, watch His ways!
How He ruthlessly perfects
Whom He royally elects!

Excerpt from Morgan's 1918 Version[3]

When Nature wants to drill a man
And thrill a man,
And skill a man,
When Nature wants to mould a man
To play the noblest part;
When she yearns with all her heart
To create so great and bold a man
That all the world shall praise
Watch her methods, watch her ways!
How she ruthlessly perfects
Whom she royally elects

References

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  1. ^ Domenic Marbaniang, A Chronological Summary of the Christianization of Angela Morgan’s “When Nature Wants a Man” into “When God Wants to Drill a Man," ResearchGate, Sep 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27229.08169
  2. ^ Oswald J. Sanders, Spiritual Leadership, (Moody Press, 1967).
  3. ^ Angela Morgan, Forward, March, (John Lane Company, 1918), pp.92-95