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Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln.
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 battle-field
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 altogether fitting
and proper
that we should do this.
But,
in a larger sense,
we can not dedicate
-- we can not consecrate
-- we can not 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 here.
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.