Tis true, my form is something odd
but blaming me, is blaming God,
Could I create myself anew
I would not fail in pleasing you.
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This is a rhyme used in Merrick's sideshow pamphlet, and which he is said to have often quoted, followed by the lines: If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.
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These lines are from "False Greatness" by Isaac Watts, first published in Horae Lyricae (1706) Bk. IIJoseph Merrick
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