Rabbi Ben Ezra (Henry Kimball Hadley)

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(Posted 2023-10-23) CPDL #76569:

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-23). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 295 kB Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Rabbi Ben Ezra
Composer: Henry Kimball Hadley
Lyricist: Robert Browning
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1901 C. C. Birchard & Company
Description: Poem is about the scholar-poet Abraham Meir ibn Ezra (1089/92–1167).

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Original text and translations

English text

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!”

poem about the scholar-poet Abraham Meir ibn Ezra (1089/92–1167)