“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”

Robert Browning · “Rabbi Ben Ezra,” Dramatis Personae · 1864

Old age is not a decline to dread but the goal that youth was preparing for. Browning's speaker invites a listener to grow old with him because the later years complete the life.

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