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…showed last 75 words of 918 total…creating a literary piece of art. In the end, though he knew it would be important, it seems impossible that President Lincoln could fathom that the speech he gave on a small cemetery in Gettysburg would have such historical importance and be considered a literary masterpiece. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** n Encarta Encyclopedia, "The Gettysburg Address", Encarta Electronic Media; Microsoft Co. 2000 n Http://www.gettysburg.edu/Address.html n Http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/getty.html