Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three days of bitter grief passed
and abandoned any attempt to cheer his friend.
Then came a change in Usher's
demeanour, whose significance he was to comprehend.
Now stands for hour on hour
with head inclined and half-closed,
as if the deep and sullen silence
a sound exists for he listens; a sound without end.
Now Usher walks for on hour.
With ashen face and trembling step, he climbs stair,
He climbs tower; still hears it there.
CHORUS AND No. only the
THE VOICES of the heart,
OF THE heart of the House of Usher,
beating of the
heart of the of Usher.
MONTRESOR
Roderick is you?
I not sleep
Nor I.
to the storm!
Did you ever
such a sound?
Indeed.
I have!
But sound you can hear;
the tempest upon the House
as it would upon a drum,
is no sound to fear.
For the to fear
It beats the house.
softly when they come
The thunder seems so
But it's only the But it's the
beating of the heart, of the heart,
of the House of Usher. heart of the House of Usher.
USHER MONTRESOR OF THE HOUSE
Oh the lake is of the heart,
in frenzy, I heart of the
can the waves of Usher
beat on the walls Beating of the
The breaking of the heart! of the House
These giant of Usher.
are trembling Beating of the
the savage lashing heart of the
of the of Usher.
The breaking of the heart! Beating of the
heart of the
of
Why is other sound The House
not by of Usher
echoes of the storm? stand.
The
But understand we of Usher
hear the House shall
of a storm The House
This is the storm itself! of
stand.
The of Usher
The of Usher
MONTRESOR We've seen enough, close the window.
The is chill and grows yet stronger.
walls are shaking!
You shall something for me;
you shall play and I listen.
So we will pass this dreadful night.
USHER Yes I play,
yes, I play!
(The Haunted In the of our valleys
Palace) by angels tenanted
a fair and stately palace -
radiant - reared its head.
In the monarch, Thought's
a jewel it stood there.
Never seraph spread a
over half so fair.
Wanderers in that happy
through two luminous saw
moving musically
to a well-tuned law,
round about a throne sitting,
side by side his fair queen,
in state his glory befitting,
the ruler of the was seen.
MONTRESOR
Wait!
Did you it?
was it?
nothing.
What was
sound?
I say, I nothing
All with and ruby glowing
was the palace door
which came flowing, flowing,
flowing and sparkling
a troop of echoes, whose duty
night and day was but to
in voices of surpassing
the wit and of their king.
USHER
No!
something,
I it
clear,
a crying.
It's
I say
but the wind!
You the wind,
just Within the House!
the wind crying.
But things, in robes of sorrow
the monarch's high estate;
let us mourn for morrow
dawn him, desolate;
about his home the glory
that had blushed and bloomed
is but a dim-remembered
of the olden entombed.
USHER
There!
Yes, you it!
There is else -
There's nothing something
I say, there!
You nothing!
There's there.
It is the Are we
that you hear. alone
now within that valley
through windows see
vast forms that move
to a discordant
while like a rapid, ghastly
through the ever open
a hideous rush out forever
and laugh - but no more!
And laugh - but no more!
And - but smile no more!
No! No! No!
Yes, I it! Yes, I have heard it
long, long - many minutes, hours,
but I not speak:
I tell you I not speak.
No more from you,
you thick-skinned obtuse fool, your compassion!
For now I say you hear the wicked truth
We put her in the tomb!
But I not, I dared not speak!
Yes, have I not her footsteps on the stair?
Yes, do I not
the and horrible beating of her heart?
Yes, she is coming.
She has in the darkness,
in her mindless, strength.
Now she has broken the tomb.
Now she has burst the tomb.
Days ago I heard her first movements
in the coffin -
said I not that my senses acute?
I heard the scraping, the of her nails -
but I not, I dared not speak!
Madman! Madman!
I tell you that she now towards the door!
USHER MONTRESOR CHORUS OF THE HOUSE
No, what a
thought! We
Now the breath!
is finished. The that House
You said is we are!
she was dead... be We
You undone. could not
her dying!
It's over now It's now
What evil let
you It could not
be prevented go!
God, a
thought!
It's over now It's now. We
The that
Why must is done could
be
this have not
been
It's over now over now
The evil The evil that We
is done... is could not
not
be let
could this have never
been be prevented
go!
I dare not could this have it not
I dared not speak! been be prevented!
Madman!
Madman!
I you
that she now
the door!
USHER MADELINE CHORUS
I'm
Now, No,
Madeline! Madeline!
I counted
to a
with my eyes
and I'm
I am the now to find you... Leave!
of the Usher! Depart!
my death Go!
shall me so.
Where are you It's now

I am If I so
the last I'd
Usher Roderick her Leave!
I feel where are It's over now Depart!
the sky I see. Go!
Now he
of death, the the evil
some things even is done that is one
I feel cannot be cannot be
the sky undone
moan shuts himself away the the evil
to join shuts himself away that is come that is
the slime!
He shut not could not
away! be prevented. be prevented.
AS THE FALLS
THE beams buttresses plaster copings We We
OF THE corbels bressumers chimney- breath are
HOUSE joists arches wainscot shafts We rise
piers stairs parapets
ridge-ribs banister pediments
struts columns cusps
stanchions gargoyle
king-posts
End of Act Six