14- Look Down

1832. The teeming, squalid streets of Paris. Beggars, urchins, prostitutes, students, etc. BEGGARS Look down and see the beggars at your feet Look down and show some mercy if you can Look down and see the sweepings of the street Look down, look down, Upon your fellow man! GAVROCHE 'Ow do you do? My name's Gavroche. These are my people. Here's my patch. Not much to look at, nothing posh Nothing that you'd call up to scratch. This is my school, my high society Here in the slums of Saint Michele We live on crumbs of humble piety Tough on the teeth, but what the hell! Think you're poor? Think you're free? Follow me! Follow me! BEGGARS Look down and show some mercy if you can Look down, look down, upon your fellow man! (An old beggar woman finds a young prostitute occupying her pitch) ENJOLRAS Where the leaders of the land? Where are the swells who run this show? MARIUS Only one man - and that's Lamarque Speaks for these people here below MARIUS Lamarque is ill and fading fast! Won't last the week out, so they say. ENJOLRAS With all the anger in the land How long before the judgement day? Before we cut the fat ones down to size? Before the barricades arise? BEGGARS Look down and show some mercy if you can Look down, look down upon your fellow man!