Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three endless of bitter grief passed
and Montresor abandoned any attempt to his friend.
came a sudden change in Usher's
demeanour, whose significance he was to comprehend.
Now Usher stands for hour on
with head and eyes half-closed,
as if beneath the deep and sullen
a sound exists for he listens; a sound without end.
Now walks for hour 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 HOUSE heart of the of Usher,
beating of the
of the House of Usher.
USHER
is that you?
I not sleep
Nor I.
to the storm!
Did you hear
such a dreadful
Indeed.
I have!
But this sound you can
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 they come
The seems so near
But it's only the But only the
of the heart, beating of the heart,
heart of the of Usher. heart of the House of Usher.
MONTRESOR VOICES OF THE HOUSE
Oh the is Beating 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 stones of Usher.
are trembling Beating of the
the savage lashing heart of the
of the of Usher.
The of the heart! Beating of the heart
of the House
of
Why is that other The House
not by of Usher
of the storm? shall stand.
The
But understand we only of
hear the House shall
of a storm The House
This is the storm itself! of
stand.
The of Usher
The House of
MONTRESOR We've enough, I'll close the window.
The is chill and grows yet stronger.
walls are shaking!
You play something for me;
you shall and I shall 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 palace - its head.
In the monarch, Thought's
a jewel it stood there.
Never seraph spread a
over half so fair.
in that happy valley
through two windows saw
spirits musically
to a lute's law,
round about a throne sitting,
side by side with his queen,
in state his well befitting,
the ruler of the was seen.
USHER
Wait!
Did you it?
was it?
nothing.
What was
sound?
I say, I heard
All with pearl and glowing
was the glorious door
through which flowing, flowing,
flowing and sparkling
a of echoes, whose sweet duty
and day was but to sing
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,
heard Within the House!
the wind crying.
But things, in robes of sorrow
the monarch's high estate;
let us mourn for never
dawn upon him,
round his home the glory
that had always blushed and
is but a story
of the time entombed.
MONTRESOR
There!
Yes, you it!
There is someone -
There's something else
I say, there!
You nothing!
no-one there.
It is the Are we
that you hear. here?
Travellers now within valley
through windows see
vast forms that move
to a melody
while a rapid, ghastly river
through the ever open
a hideous rush out forever
and - but smile no more!
And - but smile no more!
And - but smile no more!
No! No! No!
Yes, I hear it! Yes, I heard it
long, - many minutes, many hours,
but I not speak:
I you I dared not speak.
No more from you,
you thick-skinned fool, damn your compassion!
For now I say you will the wicked truth
We put her in the tomb!
But I dared not, I not speak!
Yes, have I not heard her on the stair?
Yes, do I not
the heavy and horrible 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 movements
in the coffin -
said I not my senses were acute?
I heard the scraping, the of her nails -
but I dared not, I not speak!
Madman! Madman!
I you that she now comes towards the door!
USHER MONTRESOR CHORUS VOICES OF THE
No, a House
thought! We
Now the breath!
is finished. The evil that
You is done we are!
she was dead... be We
You undone. could not
her dying!
It's now It's over now
evil have let
you done? It not
be them go!
God, a
thought!
It's over now It's now. We
The that
Why must innocence is done
be
Could have not
been
over now It's over now
The evil The evil that We
is done... is could not
not
be let
could this have could
been prevented? be
go!
I not could this have it could not
I not speak! been prevented? be prevented!
Madman!
Madman!
I you
she now stands
the door!
USHER MONTRESOR CHORUS
I'm
Now, No,
Madeline! Madeline!
I have
to a
with my eyes
and I'm
I am the last now to you... Leave!
of the Usher! Depart!
my death Go!
leave me so.
Where are you over now

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