text: Four Score and Seven years ago, our Fathers brought forth on this continent- a new nation - concieved in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.\n\nNow we are engaged in a great civil war.  Testing whether that Nation- or any Nation so concieved can long endure.\n\nWe are met on a great battlefield of that war- we have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place of those who gave their lives- that this Nation might live.  It is all together fitting and proper that we should do this.\n\nbut in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow- this ground.  The brave men, living and dead, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.  The world will not remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.  It is for us the living, rather, to dedicate ourselves to finishing the work that they so nobly started here.  \n\nIt 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 the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.\n\nThat 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 the government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from this earth.