There was an old woman

There was an old woman went up in a basket
Seventy times as high as the moon,
What she did there I could not but ask it
For in her hand she carried a broom.
"Old woman, old woman, old woman," said I,
"Whiter, o whither, o whither so high?"
"To sweep the cobwebs from the sky,
And I shall be back again by-and-by."

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , verses from a Poetry Bookshop publication, Nurse Lovechild's Legacy.

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by Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym] , "There was an old woman", 1923, published 1924, from Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles, no. 11.

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