(Delivered on the 19th Day of November, 1863 Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania )
1863年11月19日,葛底斯堡,賓夕法尼亞
Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon 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 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.
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 they did 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 honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this Nation, under GOD, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the People by the People and for the People shall not perish from the earth.
在1863年11月19日,正值美國內(nèi)戰(zhàn)中葛底斯堡戰(zhàn)役結(jié)束后四個半月,林肯在賓夕法尼亞州葛底斯堡的葛底斯堡國家公墓(Gettysburg National Cemetery)揭幕式中發(fā)表是之演說,哀悼在長達(dá)5個半月的葛底斯堡之役中陣亡的將士。林肯的演講于當(dāng)天第二順位發(fā)表,修辭細(xì)膩周密,其后成為美國歷史上最偉大的演說之一。出乎意料的是,盡管這場演說名垂青史,聲震寰宇,其確切之措辭卻頗受爭議。五份已知的演說稿,與當(dāng)時新聞報導(dǎo)中的謄抄本,于若干細(xì)節(jié)上彼此互異。
Saying Good-bye to Cambridge Again
ery quietly I take my leae
As quietly as I came here;
Quietly I ae good-bye
To the rosy clouds in the estern sky.
輕輕的我走了,
正如我輕輕的來;
我