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