Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three days of bitter grief passed
and Montresor any attempt to cheer his friend.
Then came a sudden change in
demeanour, significance he was soon to comprehend.
Now Usher for hour on hour
with head inclined and half-closed,
as if beneath the and sullen silence
a sound exists for he listens; a sound without end.
Now walks for hour on hour.
With ashen and trembling step, he climbs each stair,
He each tower; still hears it there.
CHORUS AND No. It's the
THE beating of the heart,
OF THE HOUSE heart of the of Usher,
of the heart
heart of the of Usher.
MONTRESOR
Roderick is that
I not sleep
Nor I.
to the storm!
Did you ever
such a sound?
Indeed.
I have!
But sound you can hear;
the tempest beats the House
as it would beat a drum,
that is no to fear.
For the to fear
It upon the house.
walk softly when come
The thunder so near
But it's only the But only the
of the heart, beating of the heart,
heart of the House of Usher. heart of the of Usher.
USHER MONTRESOR VOICES OF THE
Oh the is Beating of the heart,
in frenzy, I of the House
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 trembling Beating of the
the lashing heart of the House
of the of Usher.
The of the heart! Beating of the heart
heart of the
of
Why is other sound The House
not by of Usher
echoes of the storm? stand.
The
But we only of Usher
hear the shall stand
Speaking of a The House
This is the storm itself! of
stand.
The House of
The House of
MONTRESOR We've seen enough, I'll the window.
The is chill and grows yet stronger.
These are shaking!
You shall play for me;
you play and I shall listen.
So we pass away this dreadful night.
Yes I shall play,
yes, I play!
(The In the greenest of our valleys
Palace) by good tenanted
once a and stately palace -
palace - reared its head.
In the monarch, dominion
like a it stood there.
Never spread a pinion
over fabric so fair.
Wanderers in that happy
two luminous windows saw
spirits musically
to a well-tuned law,
about a throne where sitting,
side by side his fair queen,
in his glory well befitting,
the of the realm was seen.
MONTRESOR
Wait!
Did you it?
was it?
nothing.
What was
distant
I say, I nothing
All with pearl and glowing
was the glorious door
through which flowing, flowing,
flowing and sparkling
a troop of echoes, whose sweet
and day was but to sing
in of surpassing beauty
the wit and of their king.
MONTRESOR
No!
something,
I it
clear,
a crying.
It's
I say
but the wind!
You the wind,
just heard the House!
the wind crying.
But things, in robes of sorrow
assailed the monarch's estate;
let us for never morrow
upon him, desolate;
round his home the glory
had always blushed and bloomed
is but a dim-remembered
of the olden entombed.
MONTRESOR
There!
Yes, you it!
There is else -
nothing something else
I say, there!
You nothing!
no-one there.
It is the Are we
that you hear. alone
now within that valley
through windows see
vast forms that fantastically
to a melody
while a rapid, ghastly river
through the open door
a hideous rush out forever
and - but smile no more!
And laugh - but no more!
And - but smile no more!
No! No! No!
Yes, I hear it! Yes, I have it
long, long - minutes, many hours,
but I dared not
I you I dared not speak.
No more cant you,
you thick-skinned fool, damn your compassion!
For now I say you hear the wicked truth
We put her in the tomb!
But I dared not, I not speak!
Yes, have I not heard her footsteps on the
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 from the tomb.
ago I heard her first feeble movements
in the coffin -
said I not that my were 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, a House
thought! We
Now the breath!
is finished. The evil House
You is done we are!
she was dead... be We
You undone. could not
her dying!
It's over now over now
evil have let
you It could not
be prevented go!
God, a
thought!
It's over now It's now. We
The evil
Why must innocence is could
be
Could this not
prevented?
It's now It's over now
The evil The evil that We
is done... is done not
not
be let
could this have could
prevented? be prevented
go!
I not could this have it could not
I dared not speak! prevented? be prevented!
Madman!
Madman!
I you
she now stands
the door!
USHER MADELINE CHORUS
I'm
Now, No,
Madeline! Madeline!
I have
to a
my eyes closed
and I'm
I am the last now to you... Leave!
of the Usher! Depart!
my sister's Go!
leave me so.
Where are you over now

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