Note 2 — Chapter XXXIII
Reading edition
On this episode Moore wrote his melody, "Rich and rare were the gems she wore." An Irish poet contemporaneous with this event celebrated it less poetically—
"O Thoraigh co Clíodna cais Is fail óir aice re a h-ais I ré Bhriain taoibh-ghil nár thim Do thimchil aoin-bhen Eirinn."