<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Gettysburg Address A modern recording of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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