Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three endless days of bitter passed
and Montresor any attempt to cheer his friend.
Then came a change in Usher's
demeanour, whose significance he was to comprehend.
Now Usher stands for on hour
with head inclined and half-closed,
as if beneath the deep and sullen
a sound exists for which he listens; a sound end.
Now Usher walks for on hour.
With ashen and trembling step, he climbs each stair,
He climbs each tower; hears it there.
AND No. It's only the
THE VOICES of the heart,
OF THE heart of the House of Usher,
beating of the
of the House of Usher.
USHER
Roderick is you?
I could not
Nor I.
to the storm!
Did you ever
such a dreadful
Indeed.
I have!
But this you can hear;
the tempest upon the House
as it would beat a drum,
that is no to fear.
For the sound to
It upon the house.
walk softly when they
The seems so near
But it's only the But it's the
beating of the heart, of the heart,
heart of the House of Usher. of the House of Usher.
USHER MONTRESOR VOICES OF THE
Oh the lake is of the heart,
in frenzy, I heart of the
can feel the of Usher
beat on the walls of the heart
The breaking of the heart! of the House
These stones of Usher.
are Beating of the heart
the savage lashing heart of the
of the of Usher.
The breaking of the heart! of the heart
of the House
of
Why is that sound The House
not hidden by of
of the storm? shall stand.
The
But understand we only of
the House shall stand
Speaking of a The House
This is the storm itself! of
stand.
The House of
The of Usher
We've seen enough, I'll close the window.
The is chill and grows yet stronger.
walls are shaking!
You shall play for me;
you play and I shall listen.
So we will pass away dreadful night.
Yes I shall play,
yes, I play!
(The Haunted In the greenest of our
Palace) by good angels
once a fair and palace -
palace - reared its head.
In the monarch, dominion
like a it stood there.
Never seraph spread a
over fabric so fair.
Wanderers in happy valley
two luminous windows saw
spirits moving
to a well-tuned law,
about a throne where sitting,
side by side his fair queen,
in state his well befitting,
the of the realm was seen.
MONTRESOR
Wait!
Did you it?
was it?
nothing.
What was
sound?
I say, I heard
All with pearl and ruby
was the glorious palace
through came flowing, flowing,
flowing and sparkling
a troop of echoes, whose duty
and day was but to sing
in voices of surpassing
the wit and wisdom of king.
USHER
No!
something,
I it
clear,
a crying.
nothing
I say
but the wind!
You the wind,
heard Within the House!
the wind crying.
But things, in robes of sorrow
the monarch's high estate;
let us for never morrow
upon him, desolate;
round his home the glory
that had always blushed and
is but a story
of the olden entombed.
MONTRESOR
There!
Yes, you it!
There is else -
There's something else
I say, there!
You nothing!
There's there.
It is the Are we
that you hear. alone
Travellers now that valley
through red-litten see
forms that move fantastically
to a melody
while a rapid, ghastly river
through the ever door
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 - minutes, many hours,
but I not speak:
I you I dared not speak.
No cant from you,
you thick-skinned obtuse fool, damn compassion!
For now I say you will hear the wicked
We put her in the tomb!
But I dared not, I not speak!
Yes, I not heard her footsteps on the stair?
Yes, do I not
the heavy and beating of her heart?
Yes, she is coming.
She has in the darkness,
in her mindless, strength.
Now she has from the tomb.
Now she has burst the tomb.
Days ago I heard her first feeble
in the coffin -
I not that my senses were acute?
I the scraping, the scraping of her nails -
but I dared not, I not speak!
Madman! Madman!
I you that she now comes towards the door!
USHER CHORUS VOICES OF THE HOUSE
No, a House
thought! We
Now the breath!
is finished. The evil House
You is done we are!
she was dead... be We
You watched undone. not
her dying!
It's over now over now
What have let
you done? It not
be prevented go!
God, a
thought!
It's over now over now. We
The evil
Why must is done could
be
this have not
been
over now It's over now
The evil The evil that We
is done... is done not
not
be let
could have could never
been be prevented
go!
I dare not this have it could not
I dared not speak! prevented? be prevented!
Madman!
Madman!
I you
that she now
the door!
USHER MADELINE CHORUS
I'm
Now, No,
Madeline! Madeline!
I counted
to a
my eyes closed
and I'm
I am the now to find you... Leave!
of the Usher! Depart!
my sister's Go!
shall me so.
are you It's over now

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