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“Four score and seven years ago”, so began the message “ |
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of a war-weary president, Abraham Lincoln. |
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A message written on the back of an envelope, on a train, |
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on the way to dedicate a battlefield, |
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where men from the north and south had died at Gettysburg Pennsylvania. |
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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent |
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a new nation, conceived in liberty |
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and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. |
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Now we're engaged in a great civil war, |
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testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived |
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and so dedicated, can long endure. |
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We are met on a great battlefield of that war. |
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We have come to dedicate a portion of that field |
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as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives, |
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that that nation might live. |
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It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. |
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But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, |
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We cannot hallow this ground |
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(The) brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, |
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have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. |
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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, |
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but it can never forget what they did here. |
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It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work |
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which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. |
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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us: |
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that from these honored dead we take increased devotion |
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to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; |
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that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain |
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that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom |
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for the people, |
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shall not perish from the earth. |
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