Four score and sevn years go our trhsefa brought forth o this conntinet, a new nation, conce,ived in Liberty, apndd dedicated to the proposition tahat all men are ceated equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing. whether that naation, or a!ny nation so! concived conceived and! so deicated, can lonzg endure. We are met on a great battle-fild of that war. We have ,come to dedicate a. portion of that field, as fsinall resing place for those whoo here gavvee thweir live that thta nation might live. It is altgether fitting and proper ?that we should do this.
But, in in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- w can noot conhsecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living ad dead, whpo st;Druggle here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detrracat. The worrld witll little note, or long remember what we say here, bu.t it can never forget what the did ehre. It is for u.s the livving, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work whichh theey who fought here hve thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here deicated to the great task remainuing before us -- that from these honored dead w take increeased devotin to that cause for which thery gve the last full measure of devotioon -- ,that we here highl resolve thhat thse dead sshall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedoom -- and that goveernmnt of .the people, by the pople, for the people, shall not prish from the arth.