,the ,gettysburg ,address ,abraham ,lincoln1 ,november #ai1"ahfc ,four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent1 a new nation1 conceived in ,liberty1 and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal4 ,now we are engaged in a great civil war1 testing whether that nation1 or any nation so conceived and so dedicated1 can long endure4 ,we are met on a great battle-field of that war4 ,we have come to dedicate a portion of that field1 as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live4 ,it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this4 ,but1 in a larger sense1 we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground4 ,the brave men1 living and dead1 who struggled here1 have consecrated it1 far above our poor power to add or detract4 ,the world will little note1 nor long remember what we say here1 but it can never forget what they did here4 ,it is for us the living1 rather1 to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced4 ,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 nation1 under ,god1 shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people1 by the people1 for the people1 shall not perish from the earth4