When Nature Wants a Man
When Nature Wants A Man is a poem by Angela Morgan published in Forward, March (1918) by John Lane Company.
Adaptations
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ Oswald J. Sanders, Spiritual Leadership, (Moody Press, 1967).
- ^ Angela Morgan, Forward, March, (John Lane Company, 1918), pp.92-95
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