<hi rend="bold" TEIform="hi">"An Acrostic on the Pleasures of Beauty," Poem by George M. Horton, [ca. 1835]:</hi> Electronic Edition. Horton, George Moses, 1798?-ca. 1880. Erika Lindemann Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the electronic publication of this title. Text transcribed by Erika Lindemann Images scanned by Mara E. Dabrishus Text encoded by Sarah Ficke First Edition, 2005 ca. 11K The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2005

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 <hi rend="italics" TEIform="hi">True and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students in North Carolina</hi> written by Lindemann, Erika Pettigrew Family Papers (#592), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "An Acrostic on the Pleasures of Beauty," Poem by George M. Horton, [ca. 1835] George M. Horton 1 page, 2 page images [ca. 1835] Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Call number 592 (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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An acrostic on the name Julia Shepard.

 "An Acrostic on the Pleasures of Beauty," Poem by George M. Horton, [ca. 1835]1 "An Acrostic on the Pleasures of Beauty" Joy like the morning breaks from one divine Unveiling streams which can not fail to shine Long have I strove to magnify her name Imperial floating on the breeze of fame— Attracting beauty must delight afford Sought of the world and of the Bards adored Her grace of form and heart alluring pow'rs Express her more than fair, the queen of flow'rs Pleasure fond nature's stream from beauty sprang And was the softest strain the Muses sang Reverting sorrows into speachless joys Dispeling gloom which human peace destroys—Beauty. But Goddess thou the di'mond of the fair Willt from thy brow repel affection's prayer And smile to hear the unavailing sigh With tears disolving from thy suppliant's eye— But light upon the beau to thee assignd And leave all els with disregard behind Then softly bind affection's sacred chain Never thro life to be broke off again

1. Pettigrew Family Papers, SHC. Written in Horton's hand, the poem is an acrostic on "Julia Shepard," whose name is spelled out by the first letter of each of the poem's first twelve lines. On the verso, Horton wrote "For Mr/Pettigrew." Because both Charles Lockhart Pettigrew and William Shepard Pettigrew, sons of Ebenezer Pettigrew, attended the University in the 1830s, it is unclear who commissioned the poem or precisely when it was written. At the bottom of the poem someone has completed a math problem, subtracting twelve from twenty-seven to get fifteen, then drawing a line under fifteen and writing seven below it.

A second hand has numbered the sheet [11]. This number represents someone's attempt to order the following seven poems, attributed to Horton, in Series 3.7, Folder 568, of the Pettigrew Family Papers: "The Emigrant Girl," "On Ghosts," "An Acrostic (Mr Davenports address to his lady)," "An Acrostic (His lady's reply)," "An Acrostic (To their little daughter)," "The pleasures of a College life," and "An Acrostic on the pleasures of beauty." The first five poems in the series, transcribed by the same hand (but not Horton's) and on the same type of paper, contain the following inscription: "The following was written by George Haughton the negro poet at Chapel Hill, in the year 1836./W. S. Pettigrew." "The pleasures of a College life" is dated 1831.