A popular song from 1952.
Words by Edwin Markham.
Music by Charles E. Ives.
The sheet music:
Lyrics
And so he came from the prairie cabin to the Capitol
One fair ideal led our chieftain on
He built the rail pile as he built the State
The conscience testing every stroke
To make his deed the measure of the man
So came our Captain with the mighty heart
And when the step of earthquake shook the house
Wrenching rafters from their ancient hold
He held the ridge-pole up and spiked again
The rafters of the Home , he held his place
He held the long purpose like a growing tree
Held on thro’ blame and faltered not at praise
And when he fell in whirlwind
He went down as when a Kingly cedar green
With boughs goes down with a great shout
Upon the hills
Sung here by Simon Estes: