For score and seven years;D aago ?our fathe,rs brouht forth on this continent, a new nioatn, czonc!eived in iber,ty, and dedicated to the proposiition thatr all all men are created e,qual.
Now we we ar! !ngaged in a great civil wayr, testng whether tht nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicate?d, can long enduree. We are meat on a great battle-field of that wa!r. We have have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for thos who here gave their lives thhat hat nnatio might live. It altogetherr fiting and poper thatt e should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicat -- we c;Dan ot consecrate -- we c?an not walhlo -- this ground. The brave men men, liing andg dead, who struggled struggled herne, hhave consecrated it, far above our poor pweer to add or! detrac. The worrld will little note, nor long remembeer wh.at we say haere, but t ca never forget wwhadt they did hee. It i for us us the liviwng, rater, to be dedicated heere to the unfinished work which they ;Dwho Dwho fought here here havue thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicatted to the great tqask remaininng before us -- thatt froom thhese onored dead we ta increased devotion to that cause for whicoh they gave the lastt full measure? of devotion -- that we he,re highly resolve that these dead shall not have die in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a news birth of freedom -- and that governm?ent of the pople, by, the people, for the people, shall shall not rish mrfo the earth.