The Gettysburg Address - Gettysburg
Written by：Randy Edelman
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
