Unsung Heroism, a poem by Annie Josephine Levi (1900)
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open_content_license: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication date_src_start: 1900-00-00 date_src_end: 1900-00-00 languages_meta: [{"name":"English","code":"eng","standard":"ISO 639-3"}] scripts_meta: [{"name":"Latin","code":"Latn","standard":"ISO 15924"}] Date: 2023-04-23
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Excerpt: The poem "Unsung Heroism" was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), page 141. . . .
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Unsung Heroism
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To smile when the heart is breaking,
Concealing inward pain,
To plod in the thorny pathways
Through sun and mist and rain;
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To lighten a comrade’s burden
By whisp’ring words of cheer,
Dispersing the clouds of sorrow
That heaven may appear;
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To learn to be self-denying,
Unwilling to repine,
The soul ever upwards striving,
To win the peace divine;—
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These noble earthly struggles
With glory shall adorn
Their heroes—bequeathing mem’ries
To races yet unborn.
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The poem “Unsung Heroism” was written by Annie Josephine Levi and published in her anthology of teḥinot in English, Meditations of the Heart (1900), page 141.
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Contributor: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
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Name: Annie Josephine Levi
Bio: Annie Josephine Levi (1868-1911) was an American Jewish writer and poet, the daughter of Joseph C. Levi (a prominent lawyer) and Dinah Julia Levi née Emanuel. Annie Levi arranged a prayerbook, Meditations of the Heart in 1900, containing prayers by her and others and with an introduction by Rabbi Gustav Gottheil. Aside from her contributing short stories, poems, essays and letters to periodicals around the turn of the century, we know very little else about this author. By the mid-1890s she was living with her family in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, and later too, at the time of her death in Manhattan, New York. Her paternal grandparents emigrated from England. If you know more about Annie Josephine Levi, please contact us.
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Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/annie-josephine-levi
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Name: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Bio: Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)
Website: https://aharon.varady.net
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