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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 Ezra's life and work suggests to Browning, but the poem is Robert Browning using Ezra as a mouthpiece, not the other way around. At the center of the poem is a 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
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