Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three endless days of grief passed
and Montresor abandoned any to cheer his friend.
came a sudden change in Usher's
demeanour, whose significance he was to comprehend.
Now Usher for hour on hour
head 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.
With face 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
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 beats the House
as it would beat a drum,
is no sound to fear.
For the to fear
It upon the house.
walk softly when they
The seems so near
But it's only the But it's the
beating of the heart, of the heart,
heart of the of Usher. heart of the House of Usher.
USHER MONTRESOR VOICES OF THE
Oh the lake is of the heart,
in frenzy, I heart of the
can feel the waves of
on the walls Beating of the heart
The breaking of the heart! heart of the
These stones of Usher.
are Beating of the heart
the lashing heart of the House
of the of Usher.
The of the heart! Beating of the heart
of the House
of
Why is other sound The House
not hidden by of
of the storm? shall stand.
The
But understand we of Usher
hear the House stand
Speaking of a The House
This is the storm itself! of
stand.
The House of
The of Usher
We've seen enough, I'll close the window.
The gale is and grows yet stronger.
walls are shaking!
You shall something for me;
you shall play and I listen.
So we will away this dreadful night.
USHER Yes I play,
yes, I play!
(The In the greenest of our valleys
Palace) by good tenanted
once a and stately palace -
radiant - reared its head.
In the monarch, dominion
a jewel it stood there.
Never seraph a pinion
over half so fair.
Wanderers in that happy
two luminous windows saw
spirits moving
to a well-tuned law,
about 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
distant
I say, I heard
All with pearl and glowing
was the palace door
through which flowing, flowing,
and sparkling evermore
a troop of echoes, sweet duty
night and day was but to
in voices of beauty
the wit and wisdom of king.
USHER
No!
something,
I it
clear,
a crying.
It's
I say
but the wind!
You the wind,
just Within the House!
the wild crying.
But evil things, in robes of
assailed the monarch's high
let us mourn for never
upon him, desolate;
round about his the glory
that had always and bloomed
is but a dim-remembered
of the olden entombed.
USHER
There!
Yes, you it!
is someone else -
There's something else
I say, there!
You nothing!
There's there.
It is the Are we
that you hear. here?
now within that valley
through red-litten see
vast that move fantastically
to a discordant
while like a rapid, ghastly
through the ever door
a throng rush out forever
and laugh - but no more!
And laugh - but no more!
And - but smile no more!
No! No! No!
Yes, I it! Yes, I have 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 dared not, I not speak!
Yes, have I not heard her on the stair?
Yes, do I not
the heavy and 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.
Days ago I heard her feeble movements
in the coffin -
said I not my senses were acute?
I heard the scraping, the scraping of her -
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, a House
thought! We
Now the breath!
is finished. The that House
You said is we are!
she was dead... be We
You watched undone. not
her dying!
over now It's over now
What have let
you done? It not
be them go!
God, a
thought!
It's now It's over now. We
The that
Why must innocence is could
be
Could this not
been
It's now It's over now
The evil that The that We
is done... is could not
not
be let
could this could never
been prevented? be
go!
I not could this have it could not
I dared not speak! been be prevented!
Madman!
Madman!
I you
that she now
the door!
USHER MADELINE MONTRESOR
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 afraid I'd
Usher touch her Leave!
I feel where are you? over now Depart!
the sky I see. Go!
Now he
of death, the evil the
some things even is done that is one
I feel madder be cannot be
the sky undone
shuts himself away the evil the evil
to join shuts himself away is come that is come
the slime!
He could not could not
away! be prevented. be prevented.
AS THE HOUSE
THE VOICES buttresses plaster copings We We
OF THE corbels bressumers quoins breath are
HOUSE joists arches shafts We rise Usher
kin-posts piers stairs
ridge-ribs spandrels pediments
struts cusps mansard
stanchions gargoyle
king-posts
End of Act Six