Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three endless days of bitter grief
and Montresor abandoned any to cheer his friend.
Then a sudden change in Usher's
demeanour, significance he was soon to comprehend.
Now Usher 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 walks for hour on hour.
With face and trembling step, he climbs each stair,
He climbs each still hears it there.
CHORUS AND No. only the
THE beating of the heart,
OF THE heart of the House of Usher,
of the heart
heart of the of Usher.
USHER
Roderick is you?
I not sleep
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,
is no sound to fear.
For the sound to
It beats the house.
walk softly when they
The seems so near
But it's only the But only the
beating of the heart, of the heart,
of the House of Usher. heart of the House of Usher.
USHER MONTRESOR VOICES OF THE
Oh the lake is of the heart,
in frenzy, I of the House
can feel the waves of
beat on the walls Beating of the
The breaking of the heart! of the House
giant stones of Usher.
are Beating of the heart
the savage lashing of the House
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
echoes of the shall stand.
The
But understand we only of
hear the House stand
of a storm The House
This is the itself! of Usher
stand.
The House of
The House of
MONTRESOR We've seen enough, I'll the window.
The gale is and grows yet stronger.
These are shaking!
You play something for me;
you shall play and I listen.
So we will away this dreadful night.
Yes I shall play,
yes, I play!
(The Haunted In the of our valleys
Palace) by good angels
once a and stately palace -
radiant palace - its head.
In the monarch, dominion
a jewel it stood there.
Never seraph spread a
over half so fair.
Wanderers in that happy
two luminous windows saw
spirits moving
to a lute's law,
round about a throne 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
distant
I say, I heard
All pearl and ruby glowing
was the glorious palace
through which flowing, flowing,
flowing and sparkling
a troop of echoes, whose duty
and day was but to sing
in of surpassing beauty
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 wild crying.
But evil things, in of sorrow
assailed the monarch's estate;
let us mourn for never
dawn upon him,
round about his the glory
that had always and bloomed
is but a story
of the time entombed.
USHER
There!
Yes, you it!
is someone else -
There's something else
I say, there!
You nothing!
no-one there.
It is the Are we
that you hear. here?
Travellers now within that
red-litten windows see
vast forms that fantastically
to a melody
while a rapid, ghastly river
through the ever open
a throng rush out forever
and laugh - but no more!
And - but smile no more!
And laugh - but no more!
No! No! No!
Yes, I hear it! Yes, I heard it
long, - many minutes, many hours,
but I not speak:
I tell you I not speak.
No more cant you,
you thick-skinned obtuse fool, your compassion!
For now I say you will hear the wicked
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 from the tomb.
Now she has from the tomb.
ago I heard her first feeble movements
in the coffin -
said I not my senses were acute?
I the scraping, the scraping of her nails -
but I dared not, I not speak!
Madman! Madman!
I tell you that she now towards the door!
USHER CHORUS VOICES OF THE HOUSE
No, what a
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 It's now
What evil let
you done? It not
be prevented go!
God, a
thought!
It's now It's over now. We
The evil
Why must is done could
be
this have not
been
It's over now over now
The that The evil that We
is done... is could not
not
be let
could this have could
been be prevented
go!
I dare not could have it could not
I not speak! been prevented? be prevented!
Madman!
Madman!
I you
that she now
the door!
USHER MADELINE MONTRESOR
I'm
Now, No,
Madeline! Madeline!
I counted
to a
with my 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 afraid I'd
Usher Roderick 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 even that is that is one
I feel madder be cannot be
the sky undone
moan shuts himself the evil the evil
to join shuts himself away that is come is come
the slime!
He could not could not
away! be prevented. be prevented.
AS THE HOUSE
THE VOICES beams plaster copings We We
OF THE corbels bressumers quoins chimney- are
HOUSE joists wainscot shafts We rise Usher
kin-posts piers parapets
ridge-ribs spandrels pediments
struts cusps mansard
cornices gargoyle
king-posts
End of Act Six