Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three endless days of grief passed
and Montresor abandoned any to cheer his friend.
Then came a sudden in Usher's
demeanour, whose significance he was to comprehend.
Now Usher stands for on hour
with inclined and eyes half-closed,
as if beneath the deep and sullen
a sound exists for which he listens; a sound end.
Now Usher walks for on hour.
With face and trembling step, he climbs each stair,
He each tower; still hears it there.
CHORUS AND No. It's the
THE beating of the heart,
OF THE HOUSE of the House of Usher,
of the heart
heart of the of Usher.
MONTRESOR
Roderick is that
I not sleep
Nor I.
to the storm!
Did you ever
such a sound?
Indeed.
I have!
But this sound you can
the tempest beats the House
as it would upon a drum,
that is no to fear.
For the to fear
It upon the house.
walk softly when come
The thunder seems so
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 OF THE HOUSE
Oh the lake is of the heart,
in frenzy, I of the House
can the waves of Usher
on the walls Beating of the heart
The of the heart! heart of the House
These stones of Usher.
are Beating of the heart
the savage lashing 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
the House shall stand
Speaking of a storm The
This is the itself! of Usher
stand.
The House of
The House of
MONTRESOR We've seen enough, 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 away this night.
USHER Yes I play,
yes, I play!
(The In the greenest of our valleys
Palace) by good angels
once a fair and stately -
radiant palace - its head.
In the monarch, dominion
like a it stood there.
Never seraph spread a
over fabric so fair.
in that happy valley
through two luminous saw
spirits moving
to a well-tuned law,
round about a throne sitting,
by side with his fair queen,
in his glory well befitting,
the of the realm was seen.
USHER
Wait!
Did you it?
was it?
nothing.
What was
sound?
I say, I heard
All with and ruby glowing
was the palace door
through which flowing, flowing,
and sparkling evermore
a of echoes, whose sweet 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.
nothing
I say
but the wind!
You the wind,
just heard the House!
the wild crying.
But evil things, in robes of
the monarch's high estate;
let us mourn for never
dawn him, desolate;
round his home the glory
that had always and bloomed
is but a story
of the olden entombed.
USHER
There!
Yes, you it!
is someone else -
There's nothing something
I say, there!
You nothing!
There's there.
It is the Are we
you hear. alone here?
Travellers now that valley
through red-litten see
vast forms move fantastically
to a discordant
like a rapid, ghastly river
through the ever open
a hideous throng out forever
and laugh - but no more!
And - but smile no more!
And laugh - but no more!
No! No! No!
Yes, I hear it! Yes, I heard it
long, long - minutes, many hours,
but I dared not
I you I dared not speak.
No more cant you,
you obtuse fool, damn your compassion!
For now I say you will hear the wicked
We put her in the tomb!
But I not, I dared not speak!
Yes, have I not 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 from the tomb.
Now she has burst the tomb.
ago I heard her first feeble movements
in the coffin -
said I not that my were acute?
I heard the scraping, the scraping of her -
but I not, I dared not speak!
Madman! Madman!
I you that she now comes towards the door!
USHER MONTRESOR CHORUS VOICES OF THE
No, what a
thought! We
Now the breath!
is finished. The evil House
You is done we are!
she was dead... be We
You watched undone. not
her dying!
It's over now It's now
What evil let
you It could not
be them go!
God, a
thought!
It's now It's over now. We
The that
Why must is done could
be
Could this not
prevented?
It's over now over now
The evil The evil that We
is done... is done not
not
be let
could this could never
been prevented? be
go!
I not could this have it could not
I not speak! been prevented? 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 sister's 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 It's over now Depart!
the sky I see. Go!
Now he
of death, the the evil
some things that 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 that is come that is come
the slime!
He shut could not not
away! be prevented. be prevented.
AS THE FALLS
THE beams buttresses plaster copings We We
OF THE corbels bressumers quoins breath are
HOUSE joists arches wainscot shafts We Usher
kin-posts stairs parapets
ridge-ribs spandrels banister
columns cusps mansard
stanchions gargoyle
king-posts
End of Act Six