Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
was not invented for Love Among the Ruins but is indeed a poem penned by Robert Browning entitled Rabbi Ben Ezra. The poem itself is a dramatic monologue by the elderly rabbi in counselling a young man.
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