Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS endless days of bitter grief passed
and Montresor any attempt to cheer his friend.
came a sudden change in Usher's
demeanour, significance he was soon to comprehend.
Now Usher stands for hour on
with head inclined and half-closed,
as if beneath the deep and silence
a sound for which he listens; a sound without end.
Now Usher walks for on hour.
With ashen face and trembling step, he each stair,
He climbs tower; still hears it there.
CHORUS AND No. It's the
THE beating of the heart,
OF THE HOUSE of the House of Usher,
beating of the
heart of the of Usher.
MONTRESOR
Roderick is you?
I could not
Nor I.
to the storm!
Did you hear
such a dreadful
Indeed.
I have!
But sound you can hear;
the beats upon the House
as it would upon a drum,
is no sound to fear.
For the to fear
It beats the house.
walk softly when come
The thunder so near
But it's only the But it's the
of the heart, beating of the heart,
heart of the House of Usher. of the House of Usher.
USHER MONTRESOR OF THE HOUSE
Oh the lake is of the heart,
in frenzy, I heart of the
can feel the waves of
beat on the walls of the heart
The breaking of the heart! of the House
These giant of Usher.
are Beating of the heart
the savage lashing 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 only of
hear the House shall
Speaking of a storm The
This is the storm itself! of
stand.
The of Usher
The House of
We've seen enough, I'll close the window.
The is chill and grows yet stronger.
walls are shaking!
You play something for me;
you play and I shall listen.
So we pass away this dreadful night.
Yes I shall play,
yes, I play!
(The Haunted In the of our valleys
Palace) by angels tenanted
once a fair and palace -
radiant palace - its head.
In the monarch, dominion
a jewel it stood there.
Never seraph a pinion
over half so fair.
Wanderers in that happy
through two luminous saw
moving musically
to a well-tuned law,
about a throne where sitting,
side by side with his queen,
in state his glory befitting,
the ruler of the was seen.
USHER
Wait!
Did you it?
was it?
nothing.
What was
distant
I say, I heard
All pearl and ruby glowing
was the glorious palace
through came flowing, flowing,
and sparkling evermore
a troop of echoes, whose duty
night and day was but to
in of surpassing beauty
the wit and of their king.
MONTRESOR
No!
something,
I it
clear,
a crying.
nothing
I say
but the wind!
You the wind,
just heard the House!
the wild crying.
But evil things, in robes of
assailed the high estate;
let us for never morrow
upon him, desolate;
round his home the glory
that had blushed 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!
no-one there.
It is the Are we
you hear. alone here?
Travellers now within that
through red-litten see
vast forms move fantastically
to a discordant
while a rapid, ghastly river
through the ever open
a hideous throng out forever
and laugh - but 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 cant from you,
you obtuse fool, damn your compassion!
For now I say you will the wicked truth
We put her in the tomb!
But I not, I dared not speak!
Yes, have I not heard her footsteps on the
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 burst the tomb.
Days ago I her first feeble 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 towards the door!
USHER CHORUS VOICES OF THE HOUSE
No, what a
thought! We
Now the breath!
is finished. The evil that
You is done we are!
she was dead... be We
You watched undone. not
her dying!
It's now It's over now
evil have let
you It could not
be them go!
God, a
thought!
It's over now over now. We
The evil
Why must innocence is done
be
this have not
been
It's over now over now
The that The evil that We
is done... is done not
not
be let
could this could never
been prevented? be
go!
I dare not could this have it not
I dared not speak! prevented? 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 death Go!
leave me so.
Where are you It's now

I am If I so
the afraid I'd
Usher Roderick her Leave!
I feel where are you? It's now Depart!
the sky I see. Go!
Now he
of death, the the evil
some things even that is done is one
I feel cannot be cannot be
the sky undone
moan shuts himself away the evil the
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 buttresses copings We We
OF THE corbels bressumers quoins breath are
HOUSE joists arches wainscot shafts We rise
piers stairs parapets
ridge-ribs spandrels banister
struts columns cusps
stanchions gargoyle
king-posts
End of Act Six