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THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS OF
Abraham NOVEMBER
Lincoln 19,
1863
Copied fro7n Facsimile of the Original Manuscript published in ''The Century Magazine,''^ February 1894. ,
Four score and seven years ago our
new
continent, a
osition that "all
upon
this
to the prop-
are created equal"
are engaged in a great
civil
war, testing whether that
any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a cate a portion of
larger sense,
we
great battle field of that war.
it,
the nation might
This
here, have hallowed will
we
may,
can not dedicate
—The
The world
We have come to dedi-
as a final resting place for those
live.
hallow, this ground
it
and dedicated
nation, conceived in liberty,
men
Now we nation, or
fathers brought forth,
little
it,
far
in
all
—we can
brave men,
who
not consecrate
living
and dead,
above our poor power
note, nor long
died here, that
propriety do.
But, in a
—we can
who
add or
to
not
struggled detract.
remember what we say here; while
can never forget what they did here. It is
rather for us, the living,
remaining before us
—
that,
we
here be dedicated to the great task
from these honored dead
we
devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the of devotion in vain
;
—
that
we
here highly resolve these dead
that the nation, shall
government
of the
have a new birth
people by the people
from the earth.
Gift
IS
/
\-
take increased
measure
last full
shall not
of freedom,
have died
and
that
for the people, shall not perish
.
Copiedfrom Facsimile of the Final Revision published in graph Leaves of Our Coimtry's Aitthors,'' 1864-
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ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATION OF THE CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG. Four score and seven years ago our
proposition that
fathers
nation, conceived in Liberty,
new
a
continent,
all
men
brought forth on
and dedicated
this
the
to
are created equal.
are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. have come to are met on a great battle-field of that war.
Now we nation, or
We
We
dedicate a portion of that
here
gave
fitting
and proper
that
lives
their
that
we
dead,
who
power
to
we
for
us
The
say here, but
the
living,
it
The
world
will
be
it,
little
can never forget
rather, to
work which they who
is
who
altogether
can not dedicate— we can not conse-
hallow— this ground.
detract.
live.
It
this.
struggled here, have consecrated
add or
ber what is
not
we
might
nation
that
should do
But, in a larger sense,
crate—we can
as a final resting place for those
field,
brave men, far
living
and
above our poor
note, nor long
what they did
remem-
here.
It
dedicated here to the unfinished
fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced.
remaining rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task It is devotion increased take we dead honored before us— that from these to that cause for that
we
vain
—
here
that
dom—and people,
which they gave the
highly resolve
this
that
nation,
that
under
last
these
God,
full
dead
shall
measure of devotion— shall not
government of the people, by the
shall not perish
19.
1863.
in
of free-
people, for
the
from the earth.
ABRAHAM November
have died
have a new birth
LINCOLN.
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