Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three endless days of bitter passed
and Montresor abandoned any to cheer his friend.
Then a sudden change in Usher's
demeanour, whose significance he was to comprehend.
Now Usher stands for on hour
with head inclined and half-closed,
as if beneath the deep and sullen
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 each tower; still hears it there.
AND No. It's only the
THE beating of the heart,
OF THE HOUSE of the House of Usher,
beating of the
heart of the of Usher.
USHER
Roderick is you?
I not sleep
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 to fear
It upon the house.
walk when they come
The seems so near
But it's the But it's only the
beating of the heart, of the heart,
heart of the House of Usher. of the House of Usher.
MONTRESOR VOICES OF THE HOUSE
Oh the is Beating of the heart,
in frenzy, I of the House
can feel the of Usher
beat on the walls Beating of the
The breaking of the heart! heart of the
giant stones of Usher.
are trembling Beating of the
the savage heart of the House
of the of Usher.
The of the heart! Beating of the heart
heart of the
of
Why is that sound The House
not by of Usher
echoes of the shall stand.
The
But we only of Usher
hear the shall stand
Speaking of a The House
This is the itself! of Usher
stand.
The of Usher
The of Usher
MONTRESOR We've seen enough, close the window.
The gale is chill and yet stronger.
walls are shaking!
You play something for me;
you shall and I shall listen.
So we will away this dreadful night.
Yes I shall play,
yes, I play!
(The In the greenest of our valleys
Palace) by good angels
a fair and stately palace -
radiant palace - its head.
In the monarch, Thought's
like a jewel it there.
seraph spread a pinion
over half so fair.
Wanderers in that valley
two luminous windows saw
spirits moving
to a lute's law,
round about a throne sitting,
side by side with his 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 pearl and glowing
was the palace door
through came flowing, flowing,
flowing and sparkling
a troop of echoes, whose duty
night and day was but to
in voices of beauty
the wit and wisdom of king.
MONTRESOR
No!
something,
I it
clear,
a crying.
It's
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 high
let us for never morrow
dawn him, desolate;
round about his the glory
that had always blushed and
is but a story
of the time entombed.
USHER
There!
Yes, you it!
There is else -
There's nothing something
I say, there!
You nothing!
There's there.
It is the Are we
that you hear. here?
Travellers now within that
through red-litten see
vast forms that move
to a melody
while a rapid, ghastly river
through the ever door
a hideous throng rush out
and - but smile no more!
And - but smile no more!
And laugh - but no more!
No! No! No!
Yes, I it! Yes, I have heard it
long, - many minutes, many hours,
but I dared not
I tell you I not speak.
No more from you,
you obtuse fool, damn your compassion!
For now I say you will hear the 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.
Days ago I heard her first movements
in the hollow -
I not that my senses were acute?
I heard the scraping, the scraping of her -
but I not, I dared not speak!
Madman! Madman!
I tell you she now comes towards 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 watched undone. not
her dying!
It's over now over now
evil have let
you It could not
be them go!
God, a
thought!
It's over now It's now. We
The evil
Why must is done could
be
this have not
been
It's over now It's now
The evil that The that We
is done... is could not
not
be let
could this have could
been be prevented
go!
I dare not could this 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 counted
to a
with my eyes
and I'm
I am the last now to you... Leave!
of the Usher! Depart!
my death 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 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 madder cannot be cannot be
the sky undone
moan shuts himself the evil the evil
to join shuts himself away is come that is come
the slime!
He shut not could not
away! be prevented. be prevented.
AS THE HOUSE
THE VOICES beams plaster copings We We
OF THE corbels bressumers quoins chimney- are
HOUSE arches wainscot shafts We rise Usher
piers stairs parapets
ridge-ribs spandrels banister
struts columns cusps
stanchions gargoyle
eaves
End of Act Six