病床の恩師を見舞ったあの日が、結局は永訣となった。
That day I visited my old teacher on his sickbed turned out to be our final parting.
彼は家族に永訣の言葉を残して戦地へ向かった。
He left his family words of final farewell and set off for the front.
宮沢賢治は妹との永訣を詩に詠んだ。
Miyazawa Kenji wrote of his eternal parting from his younger sister in verse.
友との永訣から十年が過ぎたが、悲しみは今も消えない。
Ten years have passed since I parted from my friend forever, but the grief has not faded.