One last embrace before she dies;
And then, while he seems bowed above her,
His Mary sees him from the skies.'
Another poem of Branwell's of this date, the last he ever wrote, is entitled 'Percy Hall,' which he did not live to complete. The first draft was sent for Leyland's opinion, with the following letter:
'Haworth, Bradford,
'Yorks.
'My dear Sir,
'I enclose the accompanying fragment, which is so soiled that I would have transcribed it, if I had had the heart to exert myself, only in order to get from you an opinion as to whether, when finished, it would be worth sending to some respectable periodical, like "Blackwood's Magazine."
'I trust you got safely home from rough Haworth, and am,
'Dear Sir,
'Your most sincerely,