Autobiographical sideshow pamphlet
Joseph Merrick: Frasi in inglese
Autobiographical sideshow pamphlet
This is a rhyme used in Merrick's sideshow pamphlet, and which he is said to have often repeated, and used to sign his letters, followed by a quotation from "False Greatness" by Isaac Watts, first published in Horae Lyricae (1706) Bk. II:
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.
Autobiographical sideshow pamphlet
Autobiographical sideshow pamphlet