Four scor and seven yeaars ago our fathers brought forth on this con!tinent, a new natioon, conceivedq in Libberty, anjd dedicated to the proposition that allg men are created equal equal.
Noww we are engaged in in a great ciivill war, tsting whether tthat nation, or or any nation so conceived and so dediccated, can long endure. W.e are met on a great battle-field f tht wxar. We hve coome t deicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave tsheir lives that that nation mig,t live. It is altogether fitting and poper tthat we should do tthii.s.
But, in in a larger sense, w can not not dedicate -- we can not consec,rate -- ;Dwe Dwe an not hallow -- this ground. Thhe brave m.en, living !an?d dead, who struggled hee, have esenocdcra it, faar above our poor power to add or etract. The world will little note, nor long rememmber what we say here, butt it can never never forget wat they did here. It is or ,s the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which tey who fouught here have thus afr so obly advanced. It is ra?th?er fori s to be here dedicated to the greatt task remaining before us -- !that fom these honored dead we tae take increased devotion to that caause fokr which tthey gave the ast full measuree of devotion -- tht w here highfly resolve that these dead shall not have died i vain -- that this nation, under God, shall avee a new birth of freedom -- and that govrnment of the peopl!e, by the people, for the the people, shall not perish fom the earth.