Show 1809 LINCOLN 1865 I 1 fourscore and add or detract seven years ago the world will our fathers little note nor brought forth Y long remember on this continent what we say a new nation IM 04 here but it can conceived never forget in liberty and what they did dedicated to the here it s for proposition that us the living all men are arc created 2 rather to be dedicated equal N here to the now we are engaged unfinished work in a great which they who civil war testing MW fought here herd have thus whether that nation far so nobly advanced or any nation so conceived it is rather for us to be and so dedicated can here dedicated to the great long endure task remaining before us that we are met oil a great battlefield from these honored dead we take of that have to dedicate war we come increased devotion to that cause a portion of that field as a final for which they thelast full fuli resting place for those who here gave of devotion that here measure we gave their lives that that nation might live it is altogether fitting and highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this proper that we should do this but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we nation under god shall have a new cannot consecrate we wc cannot hallow birth of f freedom and that government this ground the brave men living and of the people by the people dead who struggled here have consecrated for the people shall not perish from it far above our poor power to the earth NOVEMBER 19 1861 |