This is he!
The monks and the friars they search’d till dawn;
When the sacristan saw, on crumpled claw,
Come limping a poor little lame Jackdaw
His feathers all seem’d to be turn’d the wrong way;
His eye so dim, So wasted each limb,
That, heedless of grammar, they all cried,
“THAT ’S HIM!”
“That ’s the thief that has got my Lord Cardinal’s Ring!”
-- a few lines from The Jackdaw of Rheims, a comic poem by Richard Harris Barham (1788 – 1845) known better by his nom de plume Thomas Ingoldsby.
. . . and mindful of grammar I now cry "This is he!" (I saw him today on Aldeburgh beach, where I went to see the sea!)
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