But looks like I'm pushing on alone here!

The dogs must be sleeping in the shade this morning.

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 battle-field of that war.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field