Rabbi ben Ezra

Rabbi ben Ezra

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 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.

ee also

*Pebble in the Sky (SF novel 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.


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