Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light.
For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies;
Even the darkest night will end,
And the sun will rise.

They will live again in freedom
In the garden of the Lord.
They will walk behind the plough-share,
They will put away the sword,
The chain will be broken
And all men will have their reward!

Alain Boublil (b. 1941) French musical theatre lyricist and librettist

Les Misérables, “Epilogue (Finale)” [music by Claude-Michel Schönberg] (1980) [tr. Herbert Kretzmer (1985)]