Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
And all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again.
Can you see it? I would bet when you read this old nursery
rhyme that visions of an egg sitting on top of a wall fill your mind…right?
That is a story your mom or dad likely read to you out of a nursery rhyme book,
but the original author probably found the idea for this rhyme in the old New
England Primer.
Author David Anderson suggests this as the most likely origin
of our Humpty Dumpty rhyme. He says that children learned their grammar from
books like this and that children picked up ideas from the couplets used in
that primer for the letters A and X. In the NE Primer it reads, “In
Adam’s fall we sinned all; Xerxes the Great did fall and so must you and I.”
This little couplet, therefore, not only teaches the letters A
and X, but also an important spiritual doctrine. That truth is that in the Fall
(Adam & Eve’s sin), we all sinned. You see, the author of our Humpty Dumpty
rhyme was not originally talking about an egg that fell, but a man. And yes,
all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, and every king and every horse
since then, still cannot put Humpty Dumpty back together. We were lost, all of
us, when man fell (sinned). Yes, it was Adam who fell originally, and it was a
mighty fall—a fall from fellowship with God. Who can put us back together again?
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