001 Four
002 score
003 and
004 seven
005 years
006 ago
007 our
008 fathers
009 brought
010 forth
011 on
012 this
013 continent
014 a
015 new
016 nation,
017 conceived
018 in
019 liberty
020 and
021 dedicated
022 to
023 the
024 proposition
025 that
026 all
027 men
028 are
029 created
030 equal.
031 Now
032 we
033 are
034 engaged
035 in
036 a
037 great
038 civil
039 war,
040 testing
041 whether
042 that
043 nation
044 or
045 any
046 nation
047 so
048 conceived
049 and
050 so
051 dedicated
052 can
053 long
054 endure.
055 We
056 are
057 met
058 on
059 a
060 great
061 battlefield
062 of
063 that
064 war.
065 We
066 have
067 come
068 to
069 dedicate
070 a
071 portion
072 of
073 that
074 field
075 as
076 a
077 final
078 resting
079 place
080 for
081 those
082 who
083 here
084 gave
085 their
086 lives
087 that
088 that
089 nation
090 might
091 live.
092 It
093 is
094 altogether
095 fitting
096 and
097 proper
098 that
099 we
100 should
101 do
102 this.
103 But
104 in
105 a
106 larger
107 sense,
108 we
109 cannot
110 dedicate,
111 we
112 cannot
113 consecrate,
114 we
115 cannot
116 hallow
117 this
118 ground.
119 The
120 brave
121 men,
122 living
123 and
124 dead
125 who
126 struggled
127 here
128 have
129 consecrated
130 it
131 far
132 above
133 our
134 poor
135 power
136 to
137 add
138 or
139 detract.
140 The
141 world
142 will
143 little
144 note
145 nor
146 long
147 remember
148 what
149 we
150 say
151 here,
152 but
153 it
154 can
155 never
156 forget
157 what
158 they
159 did
160 here.
161 It
162 is
163 for
164 us
165 the
166 living
167 rather
168 to
169 be
170 dedicated
171 here
172 to
173 the
174 unfinished
175 work
176 which
177 they
178 who
179 fought
180 here
181 have
182 thus
183 far
184 so
185 nobly
186 advanced.
187 It
188 is
189 rather
190 for
191 us
192 to
193 be
194 here
195 dedicated
196 to
197 the
198 great
199 task
200 remaining
201 before
202 us...
203 that
204 from
205 these
206 honored
207 dead
208 we
209 take
210 increased
211 devotion
212 to
213 that
214 cause
215 for
216 which
217 they
218 gave
219 the
220 last
221 full
222 measure
223 of
224 devotion...
225 that
226 we
227 here
228 highly
229 resolve
230 that
231 these
232 dead
233 shall
234 not
235 have
236 died
237 in
238 vain,
239 that
240 this
241 nation
242 under
243 God
244 shall
245 have
246 a
247 new
248 birth
249 of
250 freedom,
251 and
252 that
253 government
254 of
255 the
256 people,
257 by
258 the
259 people,
260 for
261 the
262 people
263 shall
264 not
265 perish
266 from
267 the
268 earth.