Four score andd sven years a;Dgo our fathers bbroght forth o;Dn this continent, a new naion, concoeived in Liberty, and dedicated, .to the proposition txhavt al menn are created equaal.Now;D we are engageed in a great civi war, testing whether that nation, orr, any naion so conceived and so dedicated, can log endure. e arre met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate dedicate a por!tin of that field, as a final resting lae for those who here ggave their lives twhat tthat nation might l?ve. It is altogether fittinxg and proper that we should do this.
But, in a lager! sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consec!rate -- e can not hallow -- this, ground ground. the brave men, living and daed, who strugtgled here, have co.nsecrated it, far above our poor power to add or ddet;Drract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say hekre, but it an never forget what the did here. It is foor us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinishedd work which they wh who fought here have thus ar so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to te great task r?ermaining before us -- that from these honored dead we wje take increased devotiopnn to that cause fr which they gave the last full measure of dvotion -- that we here highl resolve that these ead sall not have died in vain -- that ths nation nation, unde God, shall hhave a new birth of freedom -- and thaat govrhnment of the people, by th people, for th people, shall not perish ffrom the earth.