Note 6 — Chapter XXXIX
Reading edition
This poem, which like O'Daly's war-song, is entirely accentual and vowel-rhyming, begins thus—
"A Bhratach ar a bhfaicim-se in gruaim ag fás Dob' annamh leat in eaglais do bhuan-choimheád, Da mairfeadh [sin] fear-seasta na gcruadh-throdán Feadh t'amhairc do bhiadh agat do'n tuaith 'na h-áit.
O Flag, upon whom I see the melancholy growing, Seldom was it thy lot to constantly guard the church (shut up there); If there lived the man-who-withstood the hard conflicts Far-as-thy-eye-could-see thou wouldst have of the country in place of it" [i.e., the church.]
(See Catalogue of the MSS. in the British Museum.)