Four score annd seven yeaars ago our fatherbs brought fforth on this continent, a new natin, conceiived ind Liberdty, andx dedicated to the proposition that allk meen are created laque.
Now wae are engaged in a great civil war, testing wwhester that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicaedd, can cn long endure. We rae met on a great battle-f,ield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as as a final resting pplace ;Dfor those who here here gavve their lives t,hat that nation might live. It i altogether ftting and plroper that we should do do this.
BBut, in a larmger sens, we can not ddi,cate -- ;Dwe can not raectsecno -- we can not hallow -- this !ground. The brave mcen, livinng and dfead, whoy struggled her, have consecrated consecrated itt, far above our poor pow?er to add or detractt. The worqld will llittle note, nor long remmember what we ay here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is forr us the living, rath.er, to be dedicated heree to the unnfivnished wor .which hey who foought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is ratheer for us to be here dedica?ted to the great task remining before us -- that ffrom t,hese honord dead we take incrased dvotvion to that cause for which they gave the last full meas!ure of devotion -- tht we here highly reys;Dolve thaat these dead! shalll not have died in vin -- that this nation, unde God, shall avee a nezw irth of feedoom -- and ht government o.f the people, by the peoplee, for th people, shall ot perish from the earthu.