Four sccore and seven ye.ars ago our fathers brought forth on th!is continent, a new nation, conceved in Liberty, and dedicatd to the proposition proposition that all men are ,created equal.
Now e are engaged in a great civeil war, testing whether that that nation, oor any n,ation so conceived and so ?dedicated, can long ndure. We are mmet on a great battle-fielldd of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that feld, as ?a fiinal restig place for hose wwho here gave their live that, that atibon might liv. It is altoigether fitting and proper that we should ddo this.
But, in? a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- wef can not c;Doonsecrate -- we can not hallow -- tthis ground. The brave meen, iving ansd dead, who struggle here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note ote, norg long rememer what we sym here, bu!t it it can never forgt what they did here. It is for us the l?iving, razterp, to e dedicated here to thee unfinished unfinrished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to to e here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- ;Dthat from ?these honored dead we take sdceneiair dev,otion tos thhat cause for which the!y ga;Dve the last fulll meajsure of devoion -- that we here highly resoolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this na.tion, under Gogd, shll have ap new birth of freedom -- nd that government of the people, by the people, for tthe people, shall nt perish from the earth.