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POETRY | NOSTALGIC HUMOR
Humpty Dumpty
Beyond the nursery words
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As many of us all do remember,
Humpty Dumpty sat high atop a wall,
from which he did take a very great fall,
but why, one might reasonably wonder,
was a fragile egg sitting up so high,
from where he might fall so far down and die?
If truth be told, as it normally should,
the wall atop of which our Humpty stood,
encircled all of ye old Colchester
from whence Humpty Dumpty could far better
fire down on besieging Cromwellians
and all their accompanying villains,
attacking that Royalist garrison,
‘till counter fire fell where he stood upon,
so that Humpty Dumpty made his great fall.
They couldn’t put him back again, at all,
not all the King’s horses, or the King’s men,
could put any part of him back again,
