晨读英语美文100篇 Passage 52. Address at Gettysburg

[00:00.76]Passage 52. Address at Gettysburg

[00:06.78]Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,

[00:16.73]conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

[00:23.41]Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,

[00:29.10]or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

[00:34.35]We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

[00:38.18]We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as final resting place

[00:48.68][00:44.30]for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.

[00:53.39]It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

[00:58.42]But, in larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground.

[01:05.97]The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,

[01:10.67]have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

[01:15.81]The world will little note nor long remember what we say here,

[01:20.74]but it can never forget what they did here.

[01:24.24]It is for us, the living,rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work

[01:31.57]which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

[01:36.39]It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us

[01:43.71]—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause

[01:48.86]for which they gave the last full measure of devotion;

[01:51.92]that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain;

[01:57.72]that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom;

[02:02.10]and that government of the people, by the people, for the people,

[02:07.46]shall not perish from the earth.