This inspiring poem is a powerful reminder that our obstacles in life are the very things which make us stronger and wiser. When Nature Wants A Man by Angela Morgan 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 method, watch her ways! How she ruthlessly perfects Whom she royally elects; How she hammers him and hurts him, And with mighty blows converts him Into trial shapes of clay which only Nature understands While his tortured heart is crying and he lifts beseeching hands! How she bends, but never breaks, When his good she undertakes. . . . How she uses whom she chooses And with every purpose fuses him, By every art induces him To try his splendour out – Nature knows what she's about. When Nature wants to take a man,