What Best I See In Thee

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Title:     What Best I See In Thee
Author: Walt Whitman [More Titles by Whitman]

_To U. S. G. return'd from his World's Tour._

What best I see in thee
Is not that where thou mov'st down history's great highways,
Ever undimm'd by time shoots warlike victory's dazzle,

Or that thou sat'st where Washington sat, ruling the land in peace,
Or thou the man whom feudal Europe feted, venerable Asia swarm'd upon
Who walk'd with kings with even pace the round world's promenade;
But that in foreign lands, in all thy walks with kings,
Those prairie sovereigns of the West, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois,
Ohio's, Indiana's millions, comrades, farmers, soldiers, all to the
front,
Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's
promenade,
Were all so justified.

[The end]
Walt Whitman's poem: What Best I See In Thee

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