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 astrolabe, etc.

The poem begins:

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 ibn Ezra's life and work suggests to Browning, theistic paradox, that good might lie in the inevitability of its absence:

The poem was published in Browning's Dramatis Personae in 1864.

The second line of the poem, 'The best is yet to be', is the slogan of Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) of Singapore, one of the top institution in the country.

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