Four score and seven years ago our (1) ___ brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in (2) ___ , and dedicated to the proposition that (3) ___ men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil (4) ___ , testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long (5) ___ . We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to (6) ___ 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 (7) ___ that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we (8) ___ dedicate, we (9) ___ consecrate, we (10) ___ hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor (11) ___ to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we (12) ___ here, but it can never forget what they (13) ___ 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 (14) ___ dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly (15) ___ that these dead shall not have died in (16) ___ —that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government (17) ___ the people, (18) ___ the people, (19) ___ the people, shall not perish from the (20) ___ .