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/PICLINCOLN.LBM
NOVEMBER 19 1863
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
by Abraham Lincoln
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought
forth on 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
battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place for
those who here gave their lives that that nation might
live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we
should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we
cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
have consecrated it far above our poor power to add
or detract. The world will little note nor long
remember what we say here, but it can never forget
what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather
to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here 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 that these
dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation,
under God, 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.
/END