Robert Crawford

Here you will find thePoemNatural Gifts.of poet Robert Crawford

Natural Gifts.

The gifts o' the gods; not all men have them, ay, And some indeed that have them know it not; And some that have them not, deem that they have, And there's the mischief: it is this that makes So many failures, tempts men to betray Their proper selves, and on a false surmise Of what they are or will be, lures them to Their own undoing; as pirate lights decoy Unwary mariners to ruin on A monstrous shore.