| Show gettysburg speech called marvel of poetic splendor Lincol ns undying gettysburg address has been put into the new poetic style by dr marion mills miller who finds that the speech Is as perfect a poem as ever was written and even n the minor qualities of artistic language rhythm and cadence phonetic euphony symbolism and that subtle reminiscence of a great literary and spiritual inheritance the bible which stands to us as homer did to the ancients it excels the finest gem to be found in poetic cabinets from the greek anthology downward dr millers interesting te poetic presentation of the address follows fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent A new nation conceived liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men arc creaked equal now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure wo are met on a great battlefield of that wa we have come to dedicate a portion of field As a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live t Is altogether fitting and proper that wo should do this but in a larger sense wo can not dedicate we can not consecrate we can not hallow this ground the brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it ar above our pool power to add or detract the world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can never arget what they did here it Is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished word which they who ought here have so nob y advanced it Is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that causo for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation under god shall havoc a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth |
