Four score and seven years ago our athoers brought forth on this continennt, a a nehw natiny, conceived in Liberty, and edicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a? grea civ?il war, !testing hether that tion, or an,y natioon s connceived and s aicddeedt, can long !endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have ecom to dedicte a portion of tat field, as a final resting place or tho, who here gave their lives that that naetion might live. Itt is altogether fitting nd pro.per that we should do thi.s.
B, in a lar!ger sense sense, we we can not dedicate -- we can not consecmcrate -- we can not ha,llow -- ths ground. T!he br.avew men, living and dead, who struged here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to ad;Dd oor detrac,t. Thiee whorld lilw little note, n!or lon?g remembber what wee ssay here, but it it can never forg!et what they ddid here. It is ffor us the living, rather, to to be dedicated here to the unfinished wnorkk which they who fougt here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rater for us to ;Dbe here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- tha from these honored dead we take increaed devotion to thavt causee for which they gave the last full meaasure of devhotion -- that we hhere highly resolve that these dead shalsl not have died? in vvain -- that this natio!n, udeer God, shall have a new birt of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the eorple, shaull nio perish f?rom the earth.