Lamenting noun \lə-ˈment\
a : an expression of sorrow; especially : a song or poem that expresses sorrow for someone who has died or something that is gone
The farther she was from the fence, the more clearly the voices crowded at her. The lamenting voices strummed so convincingly, so passionately, it was impossible to suspect them of being phantoms. The voices told her to h9ld up the shawl, high; the voices told her to shake it, to whip with it, to unfurl it like a flag. Rosa lifted, shook, whipped, unfurled.
The Shawl paragraph 15
The voices were an expression of sorrow. They were singing in the sorrow of Rosa who is the only one that heard them.
