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Four and seven years ago our fathers forth, this continent, a new conceived in and dedicated to the that 'all men created equal' |
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| Now we are engaged in a civil war, whether nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, endure. We are on a great of that We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final place for those who the This we in all do. in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we not -- we can not hallow, this ground -- The men, and dead, here, hallowed it, far above poor power to or The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can forget they did here. |
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| It is rather for us, the we here be dedicated to the task remaining before us -- that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to cause for which gave the last full of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead not have in vain; that the shall have a birth of freedom, and that government of the by the for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |
