" FAREWELLS !" O what a word!
Denying this agony, denying the affrights,
Denying all De Quincey spoke or heard
In the infernal sadness of his nights.

How mend these strange " farewells"?
" Vale"? " Addio"? " Leb" wohl'? Not one but seems
A tranquil refutation; tolling bells
That yet withhold the terror of his dreams.