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Memorization Aid
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Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln | |
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 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 the nation might live. | |
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. | |
But, in a large sense, we cannot dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground. | |
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have connsecrated it far above our poor powers to add or detract. | |
The world will little note nor long remember what we say 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 tasks remaining before us-that from these dead | |
we take increased devotion to that cause for which they the last full measure of devotion; | |
that we here highly resolve that these dead shall have not died in vain; | |
that this naton, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that the | |
government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. |