林肯在盖茨堡发表的一篇著名演说的英文版本

Gettysburg Address

　　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 battlefield of that war. We have come to
　　dedicate a portion of the field as a final resting-place for
　　those who here gave their lives that the 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 poor power to add or detract.
　　The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say
　　here, but it can never forget what t