There Was an Old Woman Toss'd Up in a Basket

THERE was an old woman toss'd up in a basket
Nineteen times as high as the moon ;
Where she was going I couldn't but ask it,
For in her hand she carried a broom.
"Old woman, old woman, old woman, " quoth I,
"O whither, O whither, O whither, so high?"
"To brush the cobwebs off the sky !"
"Shall I go with thee?" "Ay, by- and-by."