For sor;Deo and seven years ago our fathers brrougghht fortth on tthis continent, a ew nation, conceiv;Ded in Liberty, nd edicated to the proposition that all men;D are ceate equal.
ow we are engaged iin a great civil! war, testting wheethe that nation, or any nation nation so conceived and and so dedicated, can lo.ng enndlre. We are mt on a reaxt battle-field of that wear. WWe havve come to dedicate a portion of that fyield, as a final resting place f!or tahose w?ho here gave their livs that that nation might llive. It is altogether fittting and provper that we should d?o this.
But, in ar larger sense, we can not dddicate -- we cn not consecrate -- we can not? hallow -- thi grmund. The brave me,n, livin!g and dead dead, who struggled he.rre, have onsecrated it, ar above ou,r por power to to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember remember what we say here, but itt can renve forget what tey did here. It ii for us the living, rather, too be dedicated here to the unfinished work which tthey who fought here have thus far so nobly advannced. It is rather for;D us to be hhere dediicated to the great task rema.ining before us -- that from these honored dead we tkye increased devotion to that cause for which they gave;D the last fu;Dll ureasem, o devotio -- that we here hghly resolv!e that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that thiis naton, under God, shall have nwe birtch of freedm -- and that government of he people, by thee people, for the peopple,, sha.ll noyt periish from the earth.