EPONINE
Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
I don't feel any pain

A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
You're here, that's all I need to know

And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow.


MARIUS
But you will live, 'Ponine - dear God above,

If I could heal your wounds with words of love.

EPONINE

Just hold me now, and let it be.
Shelter me, comfort me


MARIUS
You would live a hundred years
If I could show you how

I won't desert you now...

EPONINE

The rain can't hurt me now
This rain will wash away what's past
And you will keep me safe

And you will keep me close
I'll sleep in your embrace at last.


The rain that brings you here
Is Heaven-blessed!
The skies begin to clear

And I'm at rest
A breath away from where you are
I've come home from so far

So don't you fret, M'sieur Marius

I don't feel any pain

A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now


That's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close


MARIUS(in counterpoint)
Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine,

You won't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt you now

I'm here

I will stay with you

Till you are sleeping

EPONINE

And rain...

MARIUS

And rain...

EPONINE

Will make the flowers...

MARIUS

Will make the flowers... grow...

(She dies. Marius kisses her, then lays her on the ground)


ENJOLRAS
She is the first to fall

The first of us to fall upon this barricade

MARIUS

Her name was Eponine
Her life was cold and dark, yet she was unafraid.

COMBEFERRE
We fight here in her name


PROUVAIRE
She will not die in vain.

LESGLES

She will not be betrayed.

(They carry her body off)