| In the disfigured street He left me, with a kind of valediction, And faded on the blowing of the horn. |
| Is this transformation meant to be valediction or a malediction? |
| It may now be read as my parting address and valediction, made to my friends. |
| We then leap forward to Esther's valediction, written seven years later. |
| Instead, more than two years after it was recorded, the album turns out to be their valediction. |
| Otto simply raised a hand in valediction and spurred his horse on. |
