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While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children.
當合眾國長久地延續(xù)下去時，對我們和我們的孩子而言，在我們眼前展現(xiàn)的是激動人心的美好前景。
Beyond that, I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise.
放眼未來，我致力的不是透過那層帷幕。惟愿在我們這一代，至少幕布不會拉起來。
God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind.
在我看來，絕不會將后面隱藏的東西大白于天下。
When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven,
最終，當我凝神注視時，太陽已經(jīng)失去光輝，
may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union;
但愿我看到的不是它照耀昔日輝煌的合眾國那破碎和不名譽的碎片，
on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.
不是被割裂的、不和諧和卷入沖突的合眾國，不是出租給國民公敵或浸透了兄弟鮮血的國土。
Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic,
讓他們衰弱和游移的目光或多或少地停留在共和國那非常漂亮的旗幟上吧，
now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original luster,
現(xiàn)在這面旗幟在世界各地已經(jīng)為人所知，受到尊敬，而且還將繼續(xù)高揚下去，它所到之處戰(zhàn)無不克，戰(zhàn)利品無數(shù)，
not a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured — bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as,
星條旗上沒有一道條紋斑駁或者受到玷污，沒有一顆星暗淡無光——強調(diào)的是它不會受到如此卑鄙的質(zhì)問的座右銘，
What is all this worth? nor those other words of delusion and folly, Liberty first, and Union afterwards,
所有這一切意義何在？不是其他帶有欺騙性和愚蠢的箴言，先有自由，才有合眾國，
but everywhere spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds,
但是閃耀著光輝的這幾個字傳遍每個地方，
as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens,
在海上、在陸地上飄揚，還在整個蒼穹下的每一陣風中，
that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!
至于其他觀點，對于每一個真正的美國良心來說都是珍貴的——自由和聯(lián)邦，現(xiàn)在和將來，結(jié)成一體不分離！
