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I heard John Hurt reading this with such passion it made me cry. :-((

"'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.

Was I so tall, could reach the pole,
or grasp the ocean with a span;
I would be measured by the soul.
The mind's the standard of the man."

It was the favourite poem of John Merrick (also known as The Elephant Man) although it never appears in the film.