Bring Him Home

           Bring Him Home
         

"A noise became audible at the door.

It was the doctor entering.

"Good-day, and farewell, doctor," said Jean Valjean. "Here are my poor children."

Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single word: "Monsieur? . . ." But his manner of pronouncing it contained a complete question.

The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance.

"Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God."

A silence ensued.

All breasts were oppressed.

Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he wished to retain her features for eternity.

In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy was still possible to him when gazing at Cosette. The reflection of that sweet face lighted up his pale visage.

The doctor felt of his pulse.

"Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and Marius.

And bending down to Marius' ear, he added in a very low voice:

"Too late."

Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without ceasing to gaze at Cosette.

These barely articulate words were heard to issue from his mouth:

'It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.'"  ( from Victor Hugo's Les Miserables)

   When we lose the person we love, there are few words of comfort and consolation. Music expresses the inexpressible and as we listen, perhaps we each hear something different - a remembered voice, a pretty laugh, a spoken dream, that is no longer possible. Here are some words about this song and the singer, Robert Marien's version in English and French. fro the musical Les Mis