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Still, wond'rous youth! each noble path pursue, On deathless glories fix thine ardent view:

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“Still, wond'rous youth! each noble path pursue, On deathless glories fix thine ardent view:”

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Wheatley praises another young Black artist and urges him to continue developing his gifts, linking visual art and poetry through shared creative aspiration.

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“To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works,” published in Wheatley’s 1773 Poems and represented by Poetry Foundation. The poem addresses Scipio Moorhead within Wheatley’s explicitly Christian artistic vocabulary; “deathless glories” carries religious as well as artistic meaning.

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