<P> Peter Aston wrote a choral version, So they gave their bodies, published in 1976 . </P> <P> American Civil War scholars Louis Warren and Garry Wills have addressed the parallels of Pericles' funeral oration to Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address . Lincoln's speech, like Pericles': </P> <Ul> <Li> Begins with an acknowledgement of revered predecessors: "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent ..." </Li> <Li> Praises the uniqueness of the State's commitment to democracy: "...a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...government of the people, by the people, and for the people ..." </Li> <Li> Addresses the difficulties faced by a speaker on such an occasion, "...we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground" </Li> <Li> Exhorts the survivors to emulate the deeds of the dead, "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the great task remaining before us" </Li> <Li> Contrasts the efficacy of words and deeds, "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 ." </Li> </Ul> <Li> Begins with an acknowledgement of revered predecessors: "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent ..." </Li>

What is the major point of pericles's funeral oration