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from Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Fourscore 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 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 here 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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Select the correct answer.
What is tone of the passage?
O A. respectful
OB. passionate
O c. worried
O D. hopeful
