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In "When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloomed," his elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman mused about appropriate decorations for the tomb of the martyred president, asking "What shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls?" and answering:
Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes... In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows, And the city at hand with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys.
In other words, Lincoln's tomb should be decorated with images of the American landscape. This choice is ...