Four score and years ago our brought forth on this , a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are in a great civil war testing whether that or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long . We are met on a great of that war. We have come to a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here their lives, that that might live. It is altogether and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger , we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this . The brave men, living and , who struggled here, have it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long what we say here, but it can never what they did here.
It is for us the , rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is for us to be here to the great task remaining us - that from these honored we take increased devotion to that for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly that these men shall not have died in - that this , under God, shall have a new birth of - and that of the people, by the , for the people, shall not from the earth.
