Read the excerpt from "Violets." Some whispered that a broken heart had ceased to flutter in that still, young form, and that it was a mercy for the soul to ascend on the slender sunbeam. What larger

Read the excerpt from "Violets." Some whispered that a broken heart had ceased to flutter in that still, young form, and that it was a mercy for the soul to ascend on the slender sunbeam. What larger universal idea about life do the mourners’ whispers convey?