1 Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this 2 continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the 4 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, 5 or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are 6 met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a 14 here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the 15 living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they 16 who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us 17 to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from