four score and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth on this
continent
a new nation conceived in liberty
and dedicated to the proposition that
all men
are created equal
now we are engaged in a great civil war
testing whether that nation or any
nation
so conceived and so dedicated
can long endure
we are met on a great battlefield of
that war
we have come to dedicate a portion of
that field
as a final resting place for those who
here
gave their lives that that nation might
live
it is all together fitting and proper
that we should do this
but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate
we cannot consecrate
we cannot hallow this ground
the brave men living and dead who
struggled here have consecrated it
far above our poor power to add or
detract the world will little note
nor long remember what we say here
but it can never forget what they did
it is for us the living rather
to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have
thus far
so nobly advanced it is rather for
us to be here dedicated to the great
task
remaining before us that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion
to that cause for which they
gave the last full measure of devotion
that we here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain
that this nation under god shall have a
new birth of freedom
and that government of the people by the
people
for the people shall not perish from the
earth
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