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RE: 这是和林肯的葛地斯堡演说每日要诵读的

送交者: yyymmm2004/04/18 6:39:1 [温柔一刀]
回应 读研时,这是和林肯的葛地斯堡演说每日要诵读的。俺觉得海伦的老师是圣母 by dok-knife 于 2004/04/16 18:40:25


和老刀有同样的经历。在国内时就喜欢背诵葛地斯堡演说和马丁KING的"I Have a Dream"。Keller 的 "Three Days to See" 长了点,喜欢读,但是没有背下来。下面 ZT 林肯的葛地斯堡演说,与刀客共勉:

Abraham Lincoln

Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863

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, 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 can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not 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, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.



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