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SONGS OF EXILE

THE AGES
OF
MAN

The Author of The Ages of Man is not known. There are several Hebrew variants of the poem, which, without convincing reason, has been ascribed to Abraham Ibn Ezra. The present English translation has been made from the text contained in a manuscript brought by Mr. Elkan N. Adler from the Cairo Genizah.