The third and final movement from Conte's "A Whitman Triptych," Facing West is drawn from the Children of Adam book from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. The tone of this movement is rich and complex, and draws on one of Whitman's favorite themes of using travel to distant lands as a metaphor for spiritual development. In his poem, Whitman strikes notes of reflection, of longing for adventure, and ultimately ends with a question: "But where is what I started for, so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?"