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
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.

Excerpt from Sanders' 1967 Version
 * 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
 * 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