In memory of 22 year-old singer Christina Grimmie, the former contestant on NBC's "The Voice" who was brutally murdered after a concert she just finished on Friday, along with the victims of The Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida mass shootings, we would like for you to observe a moment of silence as we present the poem Peace by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop.
Peace
By Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
An angel spoke with me, and lo, he hoarded
My falling tears to cheer a flower's face!
For, so it seems, in all the heavenly space
A wasted grief was never yet recorded.
Victorious calm those holy tones afforded
Unto my soul, whose outcry, in disgrace,
Changed to low music, leading to the place
Where, though well armed, with futile end awarded,
My past lay dead. "Wars are of earth!" he cried;
"Endurance only breathes immortal air.
Courage eternal, by a world defied,
Still wears the front of patience, smooth and fair."
Are wars so futile, and is courage peace?
Take, then, my soul, thus gently thy release!
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