Stars - Les Misèrables

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The text appears to be excerpts from a poem or song discussing stars and their role in keeping watch at night.

The text describes stars and their movements in the night sky, keeping watch and holding their course.

Themes of duty, order, watching/guarding, and falling from grace are present.

Stars

Les Miserables

 12
Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil Claude Michael Schonberg

  
 8  

 12                    
 8       
There, out in the
 

    
 12                 
 8    

   

   
        
 
4

     
  
       
dark ness a fu gi tive run ning, fall en from

    
 
                 
     

   
   
      
6

  
       
God, fall en from grace God be my

   
                     
 
  
             
 
8

   
    
          
wit ness I nev er shall yield till we come face to

 
    
            

 
   

       
       
10


         
face 'til we come face to face. He knows his way in the

     
                      
  


               
12

       
        
dark, mine is the way of the Lord. And those who fol low the


                        

   

2
  
             
 
14

     
            

path of the right eous shall have their re ward. And if they

   
                   
       
 

    6 
        8       12
8  

16

      6   12
      8   8       
      
fall as Lu ci fer fell, the fla me the sword


                  86         12
8    
 
  



           
19
4

  
          
Stars, in you mul ti tudes scarce to be


4

 
 
                     
  

3

         
        
21

  
       
count ed fill ing the dark ness with or der and

        
             
        
   

      
       
23

 
             
light. you are the sen ti nels, si lent and


                 

       
 


              
25

          
    
sure, keep ing watch in the night, Keep ing watch in the

 
                  
 
 

4

              
27


        
night. You know your place in the skies, You hold your course and your

     

              
 
  
      
 

 
                   
29

 
 
                  
aim. And each in your sea son re turns and re turns and is al ways the

 
                       
     

  6
              8

31

     6
             8
same And if you fall as Lu ci fer fell, you

   
                            6
  8
 

5
 6 
 8       12
8      

33

 6    
 8       12
8          
   
fall in flame! And so it shall

 
  86        12 
 8   
 


                
   
  
35 4

    
                   

be and so it is writ ten on the door ways to par a dise that those who


4

               
           
 
   

     6
        8  
 12
 8
37

       12
        86     8
fal ter and those who fall must pay the

  
 
              
86     
 
 12
8
  

6
 12   
 8    
39

 12            
 8    
price.

      
  12           
    
   
8       
 
 

 
     
     
41

  
                  
Lord let me find him that I may

  
       
                

 

      
      

43

  
           
        
see him safe be hind bars. I will


              
          
 

7
       
      
45


            
             
Ne ver rest 'til then This I


                    
      
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          

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     
        
           
        
swear, This I swear by the stars!

 
                   
           

          

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