Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS endless days of bitter grief passed
and abandoned any attempt to cheer his friend.
Then came a sudden in Usher's
demeanour, whose significance he was to comprehend.
Now Usher stands for hour on
with inclined and eyes half-closed,
as if beneath the deep and silence
a exists for which he listens; a sound without end.
Now Usher walks for on hour.
With ashen and trembling step, he climbs each stair,
He climbs each still hears it there.
AND No. It's only the
THE beating of the heart,
OF THE heart of the House of Usher,
beating of the
of the House of Usher.
USHER
Roderick is that
I could not
Nor I.
to the storm!
Did you ever
a dreadful sound?
Indeed.
I have!
But sound you can hear;
the beats upon the House
as it would upon a drum,
that is no to fear.
For the sound to
It upon the house.
walk softly they come
The thunder seems so
But it's only the But it's the
of the heart, beating of the heart,
heart of the House of Usher. heart of the of Usher.
USHER MONTRESOR OF THE HOUSE
Oh the lake is of the heart,
in frenzy, I of the House
can feel the waves of
on the walls Beating of the heart
The breaking of the heart! heart of the
These giant of Usher.
are Beating of the heart
the savage lashing of the House
of the of Usher.
The breaking of the heart! Beating of the
of the House
of
Why is that other The House
not by of Usher
echoes of the shall stand.
The
But we only of Usher
the House shall stand
Speaking of a storm The
is the storm itself! of Usher
stand.
The House of
The of Usher
MONTRESOR We've seen enough, I'll the window.
The gale is chill and yet stronger.
walls are shaking!
You shall play for me;
you shall play and I listen.
So we will pass this dreadful night.
Yes I shall play,
yes, I play!
(The In the greenest of our valleys
Palace) by good tenanted
once a fair and palace -
radiant - reared its head.
In the monarch, dominion
like a jewel it there.
Never seraph spread a
fabric half so fair.
Wanderers in happy valley
two luminous windows saw
spirits musically
to a well-tuned law,
round about a throne sitting,
by side with his fair queen,
in his glory 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 and ruby glowing
was the palace door
through 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.
MONTRESOR
No!
something,
I it
clear,
a crying.
nothing
I say
but the wind!
You the wind,
heard Within the House!
the wind crying.
But evil things, in 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 story
of the time entombed.
MONTRESOR
There!
Yes, you it!
There is else -
There's something else
I say, there!
You nothing!
no-one there.
It is the Are we
that you hear. here?
Travellers now that valley
through red-litten see
vast forms move fantastically
to a discordant
while a rapid, ghastly river
through the open door
a hideous throng rush out
and - but smile no more!
And - but smile no more!
And - but smile no more!
No! No! No!
Yes, I hear it! Yes, I have it
long, long - many minutes, hours,
but I dared not
I you I dared not speak.
No more from you,
you thick-skinned fool, damn your compassion!
For now I say you will hear the truth
We put her in the tomb!
But I not, I dared 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 that my senses were
I the scraping, the scraping of her nails -
but I dared not, I not speak!
Madman! Madman!
I tell you she now comes towards the door!
USHER MONTRESOR CHORUS OF THE HOUSE
No, a House
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!
over now It's over now
What evil let
you It could not
be prevented go!
God, a
thought!
It's over now over now. We
The that
Why must innocence is done
be
Could this not
prevented?
It's now It's over now
The evil that The evil We
is done... is done not
not
be let
could have could never
been prevented? be
go!
I dare not could this it could not
I dared not speak! been be prevented!
Madman!
Madman!
I you
she now stands
the door!
USHER MADELINE CHORUS
I'm
Now, No,
Madeline! Madeline!
I counted
to a
my eyes closed
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
Roderick touch her Leave!
I feel where are It's over now Depart!
the sky I see. Go!
Now he
of death, the evil the
some things even that is done is one
I feel cannot be cannot be
the sky undone
moan shuts himself the evil the evil
to join himself away that is come that is come
the slime!
He could not could not
away! be prevented. be prevented.
AS THE HOUSE
THE VOICES beams buttresses plaster We We
OF THE corbels bressumers quoins chimney- are
joists arches wainscot shafts We rise Usher
kin-posts piers parapets
spandrels banister pediments
struts columns cusps
cornices gargoyle
king-posts
End of Act Six