Nov 29, 2007 13:26
If to help cleaning the last half of the last paragraph, anybody wants, eternally in their debt I would be.
Four score and seven years ago, on this continent a new nation our fathers brought forth, in liberty conceived, and to the proposition that created equal all men are, dedicated.
Engaged in a great civil war, we now are, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Met on a great battle-field of that war, we are. Come to dedicate a portion of that field, we have, as for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live a final resting place. Altogether fitting and proper that we should do this, it is.
But, in a larger sense, this ground we can dedicate not - we can consecrate not - we can hallow not. Consecrated it the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have, to add or detract far above our poor power. Little note nor long remember, the world will, what say we here, but never forget what they here did, it can. For us the living, is it, rather, to the unfinished work to be dedicated here which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. Rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, it is - to that cause for - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion which they gave the last full measure of devotion - - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall have died in vain not - this nation - that, under god, new birth of freedom, shall have - of the people - and that government, by the people, for the people, perish from the earth shall not.