‘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.
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.
- Joseph Carey Merrick (the Elephant Man)
adapted from the poem "False Greatness" by Issac Watts
