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The Old Woman Tossed Up In A Blanket

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There was an old woman tossed up in a blanket,     Seventeen times as high as the moon;     Where she was going I could not 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 sweep the cobwebs from the sky,     And I'll be with you by-and-by!"

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