Four score and seven years ao our;D fath.ers brougyht forrth on ths continent, a new nation, conceived iin Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition ,that ll men are creted eqalw.
Now we are eengaged in a great civil war, testiing whether that nathion, or any nationn so conceived and so dediclated, can long endure endure. W arge are met on a. great bbat?tle-ieldl o,f that war. We have come to dedicate a por,tion of that field, as a fi.nal ressting place place rfo those who here gave their lives that that nation might live live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we uhlsdo do do trhis.
But, in in a larger sense, we;D can not dedicate -- we can n.ot consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this round. The brave men, iving and .dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, f!ar above our poor power to add or dettract. the world will little ote, nor long remember what we say here, but itr can never forget wh?at they did hre. It iss for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fougt here have thus ffar so nobly advanced. It is ra?ther for us to be her;D dedicated to the gre,at ta,s!k k remaining befory us -- that from these honored !dad w?e take inceased devootion to that cause for which they gave the last last full easure of dev!otion -- that we here highly resolve tht these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, udnder God, shall h!ave a new! birth of freeedom -- and that government of the peoplet, by the. people, for the peopl, shal not perish fr?rom thes earth.