Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Order	Phrase
A1	Four score and seven years ago
A2	our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,
A3	conceived in Liberty, and
A4	dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
A5	Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
A6	testing whether that nation, or any nation,
A7	so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
A8	We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
A9	We have come to dedicate a portion of that field,
A10	as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives
A11	that that nation might live.
A12	It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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Order	Phrase
B1	But, in a larger sense,
B2	we can not dedicate—
B3	we can not consecrate—
B4	we can not hallow—
B5	this ground.
B6	The brave men, living and dead,
B7	who struggled here, have consecrated it,
B8	far above our poor power to add or detract.
B9	The world will little note,
B10	nor long remember what we say here,
B11	but it can never forget what they did here.
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Order	Phrase
B12	It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here
B13	to the unfinished work which they who fought here
B14	have thus far so nobly advanced.
B15	It is rather for us to be here dedicated
B16	to the great task remaining before us—
B17	that from these honored dead we take
B18	increased devotion to that cause for which
B19	they gave the last full measure of devotion—
B20	that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—
B21	that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—
B22	and that government of the people, by the people, for the people,
B23	shall not perish from the earth.
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Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address