skullhoney - The Most Epic Moment in American History lyrics
[skullhoney - The Most Epic Moment in American History lyrics]
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
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