Anyway, the automatic translator is Doubleplus-good.

Or mayhaps it’s the touching up that’s got me weepin’. Either way.

Elsewise, while I git yer point about the stupid Barney song gittin’ past without needin’ to change a single letter, I hate seein’ that kind of thing putting the ugly on a good palaver.

Now we are fighting in a great fight between each other, finding out whether the new way of leading people, or any other way of leading people that is the same, can long go on. We are met on a great big place for fighting of that big fight. We have come to set off a part of that field, as a last resting place for those who here gave their lives that that way of leading people might live. It is in every way fitting and right that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we are not able to set off—we are not able to make it good—we are not able to make like God—this ground. The men who worked through their fear, living and dead, who struggled here, have set it off, far above our not very good power to add or take away from. The world will little note, and not long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us the living, rather, to be set off here to the not yet complete work which they who fought here have to this point so moved forward like the best kind of man. It is rather for us to be here set off to the great work remaining before us—that from these dead we like to say good things about we take more love to that cause for which they gave the last full part of love—that we here promise very much that these dead will not have died in for no reason—that this way of leading people, under God, will have a new start of doing what you want— and that leading of people of the people, by the people, for the people, will not go away from the world.

Adam, I admire your attempt, but you sound a little like a bad Hollywood western.