Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three endless days of bitter grief
and Montresor any attempt to cheer his friend.
came a sudden change in Usher's
demeanour, significance he was soon to comprehend.
Now Usher stands for on hour
with inclined and eyes half-closed,
as if beneath the deep and silence
a sound for which he listens; a sound without end.
Now walks for hour on hour.
ashen face and trembling step, he climbs each stair,
He each tower; still hears it there.
CHORUS AND No. It's the
THE VOICES of the heart,
OF THE HOUSE heart of the of Usher,
of the heart
heart of the of Usher.
MONTRESOR
Roderick is you?
I could not
Nor I.
to the storm!
Did you ever
such a sound?
Indeed.
I have!
But this sound you can
the tempest upon the House
as it beat upon a drum,
that is no to fear.
For the to fear
It upon the house.
walk softly they come
The seems so near
But it's only the But it's the
of the heart, beating of the heart,
heart of the of Usher. heart of the House of Usher.
USHER MONTRESOR OF THE HOUSE
Oh the is Beating of the heart,
in frenzy, I heart of the
can feel the waves of
beat on the walls Beating of the
The breaking of the heart! heart of the
giant stones of Usher.
are Beating of the heart
the savage heart of the House
of the of Usher.
The breaking of the heart! Beating of the
of the House
of
Why is that other sound The
not by of Usher
echoes of the shall stand.
The
But understand we only of
the House shall stand
Speaking of a storm The
is the storm itself! of Usher
stand.
The House of
The of Usher
We've seen enough, I'll close the window.
The gale is chill and yet stronger.
These are shaking!
You play something for me;
you shall and I shall listen.
So we will pass away dreadful night.
USHER Yes I play,
yes, I play!
(The In the greenest of our valleys
Palace) by angels tenanted
a fair and stately palace -
radiant palace - its head.
In the monarch, dominion
a jewel it stood there.
Never seraph a pinion
over fabric so fair.
Wanderers in that valley
through two windows saw
moving musically
to a lute's law,
round a throne where sitting,
side by side with his queen,
in state his glory befitting,
the of the realm was seen.
USHER
Wait!
Did you it?
was it?
nothing.
What was
sound?
I say, I heard
All with pearl and glowing
was the palace door
which came flowing, flowing,
flowing and sparkling
a troop of echoes, whose sweet
night and day was but to
in of surpassing beauty
the wit and wisdom of king.
USHER
No!
something,
I it
clear,
a crying.
nothing
I say
but the wind!
You the wind,
just Within the House!
the wild crying.
But things, in robes of sorrow
assailed the monarch's estate;
let us for never morrow
dawn upon him,
round about his the glory
had always blushed and bloomed
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. here?
Travellers now that valley
through red-litten see
vast forms move fantastically
to a melody
like a rapid, ghastly river
through the ever open
a hideous throng rush out
and - but smile no more!
And - but smile no more!
And laugh - but no more!
No! No! No!
Yes, I it! Yes, I have heard it
long, - many minutes, many hours,
but I not speak:
I you I dared not speak.
No more cant you,
you thick-skinned obtuse fool, damn compassion!
For now I say you will the wicked truth
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 horrible beating of her
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 hollow -
I not that my senses were acute?
I heard the scraping, the of her nails -
but I dared not, I not speak!
Madman! Madman!
I tell you she now comes towards the door!
USHER MONTRESOR CHORUS VOICES OF THE
No, what a
thought! We
Now the breath!
is finished. The evil that
You said is we are!
she was dead... be We
You watched undone. 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 over now. We
The that
Why innocence is done could
be
Could 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 have it could not
I dared not speak! been be prevented!
Madman!
Madman!
I you
that she now
the door!
USHER MONTRESOR CHORUS
I'm
Now, No,
Madeline! Madeline!
I counted
to a
with my eyes
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
Roderick touch 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 that is done that is one
I feel madder cannot be be
the sky undone
moan shuts himself the evil the evil
to join himself away that is come that is come
the slime!
He shut could not not
away! be prevented. be prevented.
AS THE HOUSE
THE VOICES buttresses plaster copings We We
OF THE corbels bressumers quoins chimney- are
HOUSE joists arches shafts We rise Usher
piers stairs parapets
ridge-ribs banister pediments
struts columns cusps
stanchions gargoyle
king-posts
End of Act Six