2024年6月2日发(作者：允嘉言)
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (on Nov.19,1863)
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers
brought forth upon 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 the war. We
have come to dedicate a portion of the field as
the final resting-place of 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 cannot dedicate, we
cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecrated it, far above
our power to add or to 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 here gave the last full measure of
devotion; that we here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation
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.
2024年6月2日发(作者：允嘉言)
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (on Nov.19,1863)
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers
brought forth upon 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 the war. We
have come to dedicate a portion of the field as
the final resting-place of 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 cannot dedicate, we
cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecrated it, far above
our power to add or to 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 here gave the last full measure of
devotion; that we here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation
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.