Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three days of bitter grief passed
and Montresor any attempt to cheer his friend.
came a sudden change in Usher's
demeanour, whose he was soon to comprehend.
Now Usher for hour on hour
with head inclined and half-closed,
as if beneath the deep and silence
a sound exists for he listens; a sound without end.
Now walks for hour on hour.
ashen face and trembling step, he climbs each stair,
He climbs tower; still hears it there.
CHORUS AND No. It's the
THE VOICES 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 hear
such a dreadful
Indeed.
I have!
But this sound you can
the tempest beats upon the
as it would beat a drum,
that is no to fear.
For the sound to
It beats the house.
walk softly they come
The thunder seems so
But it's the But it's only the
beating of the heart, of the heart,
heart of the House of Usher. heart of the of Usher.
USHER MONTRESOR VOICES OF THE
Oh the is Beating of the heart,
in frenzy, I of the House
can the waves of Usher
on the walls Beating of the heart
The breaking of the heart! of the House
These stones of Usher.
are Beating of the heart
the savage 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
echoes of the shall stand.
The
But understand we of Usher
the House shall stand
Speaking of a The House
is the storm itself! of Usher
stand.
The of Usher
The of Usher
MONTRESOR We've enough, I'll close the window.
The gale is chill and yet stronger.
These are shaking!
You shall something for me;
you shall and I shall 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 angels
once a and stately palace -
radiant - reared its head.
In the monarch, Thought's
a jewel it stood there.
Never seraph spread a
over half so fair.
Wanderers in that valley
through two windows saw
spirits musically
to a well-tuned law,
round about a where sitting,
side by with his fair queen,
in state his well befitting,
the of the realm was seen.
USHER
Wait!
Did you it?
was it?
nothing.
What was
distant
I say, I nothing
All pearl and ruby glowing
was the palace door
through came flowing, flowing,
and sparkling evermore
a troop of echoes, sweet 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,
just heard the House!
the wind crying.
But things, in robes of sorrow
the monarch's high estate;
let us mourn for never
upon him, desolate;
round about his home the
that had blushed and bloomed
is but a story
of the olden entombed.
MONTRESOR
There!
Yes, you it!
There is else -
There's nothing else
I say, there!
You nothing!
There's there.
It is the Are we
you hear. alone here?
Travellers now that valley
through windows see
forms that move fantastically
to a melody
like a rapid, ghastly river
through the ever door
a hideous throng out forever
and - but smile no more!
And laugh - but 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 tell you I 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 footsteps on the
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.
ago I heard her first feeble movements
in the hollow -
I not that my senses were acute?
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!
MONTRESOR CHORUS VOICES OF THE HOUSE
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 over now It's now
What have let
you It could not
be prevented go!
God, a
thought!
It's now It's over now. We
The evil
Why must innocence is done
be
Could have not
prevented?
It's over now It's now
The evil that The evil We
is done... is could not
not
be let
could this have could
prevented? be prevented
go!
I dare not this have it could not
I not speak! been prevented? be prevented!
Madman!
Madman!
I you
that she now
the door!
USHER MADELINE CHORUS
I'm
Now, No,
Madeline! Madeline!
I have
to a
with my closed
and I'm
I am the last now to you... Leave!
of the Usher! Depart!
my sister's Go!
shall me so.
Where are you It's now

I am If I so
the afraid I'd
Usher 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 even is done that is one
I feel madder cannot be be
the sky undone
shuts himself away the evil the evil
to join shuts himself that is come that is come
the slime!
He could not could not
away! be prevented. be prevented.
AS THE FALLS
THE VOICES beams buttresses copings We We
OF THE corbels quoins chimney- breath are
HOUSE joists arches shafts We rise Usher
kin-posts stairs parapets
ridge-ribs spandrels pediments
struts columns cusps
cornices gargoyle
king-posts
End of Act Six