Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three days of bitter grief passed
and Montresor abandoned any attempt to his friend.
Then came a change in Usher's
demeanour, whose he was soon to comprehend.
Now Usher for hour on hour
with inclined and eyes half-closed,
as if beneath the and sullen silence
a sound exists for which he a sound without end.
Now Usher for hour on hour.
With ashen face and trembling step, he each stair,
He climbs each tower; 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 ever
such a sound?
Indeed.
I have!
But this you can hear;
the beats upon the House
as it beat upon a drum,
is no sound to fear.
For the sound to
It upon the house.
walk when they come
The thunder seems so
But it's only the But it's the
beating of the heart, of the heart,
heart of the House of Usher. heart of the of Usher.
USHER VOICES OF THE HOUSE
Oh the is Beating 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! heart of the
These giant of Usher.
are Beating of the heart
the savage heart of the House
of the of Usher.
The breaking of the heart! Beating of the
of the House
of
Why is that other sound The
not by of Usher
of the storm? shall stand.
The
But we only of Usher
hear the House shall
Speaking of a storm The
This is the storm itself! of
stand.
The of Usher
The of Usher
MONTRESOR We've enough, I'll close the window.
The is chill and grows yet stronger.
walls are shaking!
You shall play 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 good tenanted
once a fair and palace -
radiant palace - its head.
In the monarch, dominion
like a jewel it there.
Never seraph spread a
fabric half so fair.
Wanderers in that valley
through two windows saw
spirits moving
to a lute's law,
round about a where sitting,
side by side his fair queen,
in state his well befitting,
the ruler of the was seen.
USHER
Wait!
Did you it?
was it?
nothing.
What was
distant
I say, I heard
All with pearl and ruby
was the palace door
through came flowing, flowing,
flowing and sparkling
a troop of echoes, sweet duty
and day was but to sing
in voices of beauty
the wit and wisdom of king.
USHER
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 things, in robes of sorrow
assailed the high estate;
let us mourn for morrow
dawn upon him,
about his home the glory
that had always and bloomed
is but a story
of the time 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
that you hear. alone
Travellers now within valley
red-litten windows see
vast forms that fantastically
to a melody
while like a rapid, ghastly
through the ever door
a hideous rush out forever
and - but smile 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 - many minutes, hours,
but I not speak:
I you I dared not speak.
No cant from you,
you obtuse fool, damn your compassion!
For now I say you will hear the wicked
We put her in the tomb!
But I dared not, I not speak!
Yes, have I not heard her on the stair?
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 from the tomb.
Days ago I heard her first feeble
in the coffin -
said I not that my senses were
I heard the scraping, the scraping of her -
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 that 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 done? It not
be prevented go!
God, a
thought!
It's over now over now. We
The that
Why must innocence is done
be
this have not
been
It's now It's over now
The evil The evil that We
is done... is done not
not
be let
could this have could
been prevented? be
go!
I dare not this have it could not
I dared not speak! prevented? be prevented!
Madman!
Madman!
I you
she now stands
the door!
USHER MADELINE MONTRESOR
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 death Go!
shall me so.
Where are you It's now

I am If I so
the last I'd
Usher touch her Leave!
I where 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 cannot be cannot be
the sky undone
moan shuts himself away the 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 bressumers quoins chimney- breath are
HOUSE joists arches shafts We rise Usher
kin-posts piers parapets
spandrels banister pediments
struts cusps mansard
stanchions cornices
eaves
End of Act Six