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Attached is a Persian translation of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg
address taken from the Library
of Congress site. I don't know
anything about it except that it is by Abou-Taleb
Saremi.
The English original was delivered 140 years ago yesterday,
November 19, 1863, during the Civil War, at the dedication ceremony
for
the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Barely two minutes long, only 269 words, it is a world masterpiece
that will, until all wars end, reflect & inspire the human
struggle for freedom.
I wonder if any of your readers can improve on this translation?
It would be nice if we had a standard Persian translation for
it. -- Mahmoud Shahbodaghi
Here's the Original:
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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 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,
for the people
shall not perish from the earth.
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