PROFITING BY FAILURE 903Prior to the First World War, Morgan worked as a reporter and feature
writer for the Chicago Daily American, the New York American, and the
Boston American. In 1915 she was assigned to interview a prominent
New York preacher. After he read her poem "God's Man" to his congre-
gation, it was published in Collier's Weekly.
Mrs. John Henry Hammond soon became aware of her work, and
Morgan became a full-time poet under the patronage of Mrs. Hammond and
later Mrs. Andrew Carnegie (which may explain why Napoleon Hill has given
her so many pages in this book). It was Mrs. Carnegie who had Morgan's
poem "Battle Cry of the Mothers" printed in booklet form. In April of 1915,
as a delegate to the International Congress of Women at The Hague, Holland,
Morgan recited the poem and it became a feminist anthem for pacifism.
She later wrote under contract with the International Feature's Syndi-
cate, as well as for most major magazines of the time, and in 1936 was
named poet laureate of the National Federation of Women's Clubs. Morgan
wrote more than fourteen books of poems, one novel, and a book of short
stories. Angela Morgan died in 1957.
The following poem was published in 1918 in her book Forward
March!
When Nature wants to drill a man,
And thrill a man,
And skill a man;
When Nature wants to mold 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,