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Four score 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 battle-field 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 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, 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 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.

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