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Rabbi ben Ezra is a poem by Robert Browning about Abraham ibn Ezra (1092-1167), one of the great poets, mathematicians and scholars of the 12th century. He wrote on grammar, astronomy, the astrolabe, etc. The poem begins: :Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be... It is not a biography of Abraham ibn Ezra; like all of Browning's historical poems, it is a free interpretation of the ''idea'' that ibn Ezra's life and work suggests to Browning, theistic paradox, that good might lie in the inevitability of its absence: :For thence,—a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,— Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale. The poem was published in Browning's ''Dramatis Personae'' in 1864. ==See also== *Pebble in the Sky (SF novel by Isaac Asimov that mentions the poem) *The Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore adopted their school motto, "The Best Is Yet To Be", from the second line of this poem. *Grow Old With Me, a song by John Lennon, based in part on Browning's poem. (詳細はウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rabbi ben Ezra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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