Tom Merritt
speaker
315 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Tom Merritt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Now pass him, and nay.
What an awful wreck.
His eye bleared with frequent carousals.
His cheek bruised in the grog shop fight.
his lips swollen with evil indulgences.
Look out what you say to him, for a trifle he will take your life.
Lower down and lower down until outcast of God and man he lies in the alms house, a blotch of loathsomeness and pain.
Sometimes he calls out for God.
And then for more drink.
Now he prays, now curses.
Now laughs as fiends laugh.
Then bites his nails to the quick.
then runs both hands through the shock of hair that hangs about his head.
Like the mane of a wild beast.
And shivers.
Until the cot shakes with unutterable terror.
Then with uplifted fist fights back the devils or clutches the serpents.
that seemed winding him in their coil.
Then ask for water, which is instantly consumed by his cracked lips.
Going his round some morning the surgeon finds him dead.
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