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