 And where in modern dramatic literature can such pearls be matched — Julie incoherently confessing to her dead lover the love she had always been ashamed to tell ; Liliom crying out to the distant carousel the glad news that he is to be a father ; the two thieves gambling for the spoils of their prospective robbery ; Marie and Wolf posing for their portrait while the broken @-@ hearted Julie stands looking after the vanishing Liliom , the thieves ' song ringing in her ears ; the two policemen grousing about pay and pensions while Liliom lies bleeding to death ; Liliom furtively proffering his daughter the star he has stolen for her in heaven . ... The temptation to count the whole scintillating string is difficult to resist . 
