MARIUS
A heart full of love
A heart full of song
I’m doing everything all wrong
Oh God, for shame
I do not even know your name
Dear Mad’moiselle
Won’t you say?
Will you tell?
COSETTE
A heart full of love
No fear, no regret
M,ARIUS
My name is Marius Pontmercy
COSETTE
And mine’s Cosette
MARIUS
Cosette, I don’t know what to say
COSETTE
Then make no sound
MARIUS
I am lost
COSETTE
I am found!
MARIUS
A heart full of light
COSETTE
A night bright as day
MARIUS
And you must never go away
Cosette, Cosette
COSETTE
This is a chain we’ll never break
MARIUS
Do I dream?
COSETTE
I’m awake!
MARIUS
A heart full of love
COSETTE
A heart full of you
MARIUS
A single look and then I knew
COSETTE
I knew it too
MARIUS
From today
COSETTE
Every day
COSETTE & MARIUS
For it isn’t a dream
Not a dream after all.
EPONINE(Interjecting)
He was never mine to lose
Why regret what cannot be?
These are words he’ll never say
Not to me…
Not to me…
Not to me…
His heart full of love
He will never feel this way…
(Marius and Cosette move away as Montparnasse enters furtively)
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A HEART FULL OF LOVE
(Time has passed. Suggest Marius convalescing,
encouraged by Cosette who takes his arm as he walks with firmer step)
COSETTE
Every day
You walk with stronger step
You walk with longer step-
`The worst is over.’
MARIUS
Every day
I wonder every day
Who was it brought me here
From the barricade?
COSETTE
Don’t think about it, Marius!
With all the years ahead of us!
I will never go away
And we will be together
Every day.
Every day,
We’ll remember that night
And the vow that we made:
A heart full of love
A night full of you
The words are old
But always true.
Oh, God, for shame
You did not even know my name!
MARIUS
Dear Mad’moiselle
I was lost in your spell.
(Valjean enters, unnoticed)
COSETTE
A heart full of love
No fear no regret
`My name is Marius Pontmercy’
MARIUS
Cosette, Cosette!
COSETTE
I saw you waiting and I knew.
MARIUS
Waiting for you
At your feet
COSETTE
At your call
BOTH
And it wasn’t a dream
Not a dream after all
VALJEAN(interjecting, to himself)
She was never mine to keep.
She is youthful, she is free.
Love is the garden of the young
Let it be… let it be…
A heart full of love
This I give you on this day.
(They notice Valjean)
MARIUS
M’sieur, this is a day
I can never forget.
Is gratitude enough
For giving me Cosette?
Your home shall be with us
And not a day shall pass
But we will prove our love
To you, whom we shall call
A father to us both
A father to us all.
[COSETTE]
How strange
This feeling that my life’s begun at last
This change
Can people fall in love so fast?
What’s the matter with you, Cosette?
So many things unclear
So many things unknown
In my life
Ever so many questions and answers
That somehow seems wrong
In my life
There are times when I catch in the silence
The sigh of the faraway song
And it sings
Of a world that I long to see
Out of reach
Just a whisper away waiting for me
Does he know I’m alive?
Do I know if he’s real?
Does he see what I see
Does he feel what I feel
In my life
I’m no longer alone
Now the love in my life is so near
Find me now
Find me here
[VALJEAN]
Dear Cosette
You’re such a… a lonely child
How pensive, how sad you seem to me
Believe me
Were it within my power
I’d fill each passing hour
How quiet it must be
I can see
With only me for company
[COSETTE]
There’s so little I know that I’m longing to know
Of the man that you were in a time long ago
[VALJEAN, spoken]
Please Cosette
[COSETTE]
There’s so little you say of the life you have known
Why you keep to yourself
Why we’re always alone
So dark, so dark and deep
The secrets that you keep
In my life
Please forgive what I say
You are loving and gentle and good
But Papa
Dear Papa
In your eyes I am still like the child
Who’s lost in a wood
[VALJEAN]
No more words
No more words it’s a time that is dead
There are words
That are better unheard, better unsaid
[COSETTE]
In my life
I’m no longer a child
And I yearn for the truth that you know
Of the years
Years ago
[VALJEAN]
You will learn
Truth is given by God to us all in our time
In our turn
[MARIUS]
In my life
She has burst like the music of angels
The light of the sun
And my life
Seems to stop as if something is over
And something has scarcely begun