“Grow old along with me! / The best is yet to be, / The last of life, for which the first was made:”

Browning published the poem in Dramatis Personae in 1864, in the voice of a medieval Jewish scholar arguing that old age is a stage of its own rather than a decline. It is usually given at weddings, but it works just as well on a card because it promises a future rather than describing a present.