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EPONINE |
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Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius |
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I don't feel any pain |
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A little fall of rain |
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Can hardly hurt me now |
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You're here, that's all I need to know |
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And you will keep me safe |
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And you will keep me close |
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And rain will make the flowers grow. |
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MARIUS |
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But you will live, 'Ponine - dear God above, |
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If I could heal your wounds with words of love. |
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EPONINE |
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Just hold me now, and let it be. |
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Shelter me, comfort me |
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MARIUS |
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You would live a hundred years |
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If I could show you how |
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I won't desert you now... |
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EPONINE |
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The rain can't hurt me now |
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This rain will wash away what's past |
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And you will keep me safe |
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And you will keep me close |
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I'll sleep in your embrace at last. |
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The rain that brings you here |
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Is Heaven-blessed! |
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The skies begin to clear |
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And I'm at rest |
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A breath away from where you are |
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I've come home from so far |
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So don't you fret, M'sieur Marius |
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I don't feel any pain |
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A little fall of rain |
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Can hardly hurt me now |
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That's all I need to know |
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And you will keep me safe |
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And you will keep me close |
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MARIUS(in counterpoint) |
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Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine, |
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You won't feel any pain |
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A little fall of rain |
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Can hardly hurt you now |
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I'm here |
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I will stay with you |
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Till you are sleeping |
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EPONINE |
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And rain... |
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MARIUS |
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And rain... |
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EPONINE |
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Will make the flowers... |
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MARIUS |
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Will make the flowers... grow... |
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(She dies. Marius kisses her, then lays her on the ground) |
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ENJOLRAS |
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She is the first to fall |
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The first of us to fall upon this barricade |
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MARIUS |
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Her name was Eponine |
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Her life was cold and dark, yet she was unafraid. |
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COMBEFERRE |
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We fight here in her name |
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PROUVAIRE |
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She will not die in vain. |
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LESGLES |
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She will not be betrayed. |
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(They carry her body off) |
