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Read & copy
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be,”
Meaning & context
Browning’s dramatic speaker frames aging not merely as decline but as part of a larger spiritual development in which later life can complete what youth only begins.
Source details
“Rabbi Ben Ezra” (1864), represented in Project Gutenberg #59123, The Works of Robert Browning. The poem speaks through Browning’s imagined Rabbi Ben Ezra and is explicitly theistic; its confidence about age and providence is poetic-religious argument rather than a factual guarantee about later life.