Humpty Dumpty

by Mother Goose

Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall;
All the king's horses, and all the king's men
Cannot put Humpty-Dumpty together again.
(an egg)

Consider reading this nursery rhyme in verse: L. Frank Baum's Humpty Dumpty.

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