Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three days of bitter grief passed
and abandoned any attempt to cheer his friend.
Then came a sudden in Usher's
demeanour, whose he was soon to comprehend.
Now Usher stands for on hour
with head and eyes half-closed,
as if beneath the and sullen silence
a sound exists for he listens; a sound without end.
Now walks for hour on hour.
With ashen face and trembling step, he climbs stair,
He climbs each tower; hears it there.
CHORUS AND No. It's the
THE VOICES of the heart,
OF THE HOUSE heart of the of Usher,
beating of the
heart of the of Usher.
MONTRESOR
Roderick is that
I could not
Nor I.
to the storm!
Did you ever
such a dreadful
Indeed.
I have!
But sound you can hear;
the tempest beats upon the
as it beat upon a drum,
is no sound to fear.
For the to fear
It beats the house.
walk softly they come
The seems so near
But it's only the But only the
of the heart, beating of the heart,
heart of the of Usher. heart of the House of Usher.
USHER MONTRESOR VOICES OF THE
Oh the is Beating of the heart,
in frenzy, I heart of the
can the waves of Usher
beat on the Beating of the heart
The of the heart! heart of the House
These stones of Usher.
are Beating of the heart
the lashing heart of the House
of the of Usher.
The breaking of the heart! Beating of the
of the House
of
Why is that sound The House
not hidden by of
echoes of the shall stand.
The
But we only of Usher
hear the House stand
Speaking of a The House
This is the storm itself! of
stand.
The of Usher
The of Usher
MONTRESOR seen enough, I'll close the window.
The gale is chill and yet stronger.
These are shaking!
You shall something for me;
you play 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 - reared its head.
In the monarch, Thought's
like a it stood there.
Never seraph a pinion
over fabric so fair.
Wanderers in that happy
through two windows saw
spirits musically
to a lute's law,
about a throne where sitting,
side by 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 nothing
All with pearl and glowing
was the glorious palace
which came flowing, flowing,
flowing and sparkling
a troop of echoes, whose duty
and day was but to sing
in voices of surpassing
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
assailed the monarch's high
let us for never morrow
dawn upon him,
round about his home the
had always blushed and bloomed
is but a dim-remembered
of the olden entombed.
USHER
There!
Yes, you it!
There is else -
nothing 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 forms move fantastically
to a discordant
while like a rapid, river
through the ever door
a throng rush out forever
and laugh - but no more!
And laugh - but no more!
And laugh - but no more!
No! No! No!
Yes, I it! Yes, I have heard it
long, long - many minutes, hours,
but I dared not
I tell you I not speak.
No cant from you,
you thick-skinned obtuse fool, damn compassion!
For now I say you hear 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 beating of her heart?
Yes, she is coming.
She has in the darkness,
in her mindless, strength.
Now she has broken the tomb.
Now she has burst the tomb.
Days ago I heard her first movements
in the coffin -
said I not my senses were acute?
I heard the scraping, the of her nails -
but I dared not, I not speak!
Madman! Madman!
I tell you that she now comes the door!
USHER MONTRESOR CHORUS OF THE HOUSE
No, what a
thought! We
Now the breath!
is finished. The evil House
You said is we are!
she was dead... be We
You undone. could not
her dying!
It's over now It's now
What evil let
you It could not
be prevented go!
God, a
thought!
It's over now It's now. We
The evil
Why innocence is done could
be
Could this not
been
It's over now It's now
The evil that The evil We
is done... is could not
not
be let
this have could never
been be prevented
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 CHORUS
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!
shall me so.
Where are you over now

I am If I so
the last I'd
Usher Roderick her Leave!
I feel where are you? over now Depart!
the sky I see. Go!
Now he
of death, the the evil
some things even that is that is one
I feel madder be cannot be
the sky undone
shuts himself away the evil the evil
to join shuts himself away that is that 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 quoins chimney- breath are
HOUSE joists arches shafts We rise Usher
kin-posts piers parapets
ridge-ribs banister pediments
columns cusps mansard
stanchions gargoyle
king-posts
End of Act Six