SAGE 320
TIPIS and YURTSS
Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth, upon this continent, a new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created 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.
We are met on a great battle field of that war.
We come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final
resting place for those who died here, that the
nation might live. This we may, in all propriety
do.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate we
can not consecrate we can not hallow, this
ground The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our
poor power to add or detract. The world will
little note, nor long remember what we say
here; while it can never forget what they did
here.
It is rather for us, the living, we here be
dedicated to the great task remaining before us
that, from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they
here, gave the last full measure of devotion
that we here highly resolve these dead shall
not have died in vain; that the nation, shall
have a new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the people, for
the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth, upon this continent, a new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created 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.
We are met on a great battle field of that war.
We come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final
resting place for those who died here, that the
nation might live. This we may, in all propriety
do.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate we
can not consecrate we can not hallow, this
ground The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our
poor power to add or detract. The world will
little note, nor long remember what we say
here; while it can never forget what they did
here.
It is rather for us, the living, we here be
dedicated to the great task remaining before us
that, from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they
here, gave the last full measure of devotion
that we here highly resolve these dead shall
not have died in vain; that the nation, shall
have a new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the people, for
the people, shall not perish from the earth.