Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS Three endless of bitter grief passed
and Montresor abandoned any attempt to his friend.
Then came a sudden change in
demeanour, significance he was soon to comprehend.
Now Usher stands for hour on
with head inclined and half-closed,
as if the deep and sullen silence
a sound exists for he listens; a sound without end.
Now Usher walks for on hour.
With ashen face and step, he climbs each stair,
He climbs each tower; still it there.
CHORUS AND No. It's the
THE VOICES of the heart,
OF THE HOUSE of the House of Usher,
of the heart
heart of the of Usher.
MONTRESOR
Roderick is you?
I could not
Nor I.
to the storm!
Did you ever
a dreadful sound?
Indeed.
I have!
But this sound you can
the tempest 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 seems so
But it's only the But only the
of the heart, beating of the heart,
heart of the House of Usher. of the House of Usher.
USHER MONTRESOR VOICES OF THE
Oh the lake is of the heart,
in frenzy, I heart of the
can feel the of Usher
beat on the walls Beating of the
The breaking of the heart! of the House
giant stones of Usher.
are trembling of the heart
the savage lashing heart of the
of the of Usher.
The breaking of the heart! of the heart
heart of the
of
Why is other sound The House
not by of Usher
of the storm? shall stand.
The
But understand we of Usher
hear the shall stand
of a storm The House
This is the itself! of Usher
stand.
The House of
The House of
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 pass away this dreadful night.
Yes I shall 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, dominion
a jewel it stood there.
Never seraph spread a
fabric half so fair.
Wanderers in that happy
through two windows saw
spirits musically
to a well-tuned law,
about a throne where sitting,
side by side with his queen,
in state his well befitting,
the ruler of the was seen.
MONTRESOR
Wait!
Did you it?
was it?
nothing.
What was
sound?
I say, I nothing
All with and ruby glowing
was the glorious palace
through which flowing, flowing,
flowing and sparkling
a troop of echoes, whose duty
night and day was but to
in of surpassing beauty
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
assailed the high estate;
let us mourn for never
dawn upon him,
round his home the glory
that had always blushed and
is but a dim-remembered
of the time entombed.
MONTRESOR
There!
Yes, you it!
There is else -
nothing something else
I say, there!
You nothing!
no-one 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 a rapid, ghastly river
the ever open 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 hear it! Yes, I heard it
long, - many minutes, many hours,
but I dared not
I tell you I not speak.
No cant from you,
you thick-skinned obtuse fool, 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 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 broken the tomb.
Now she has burst the tomb.
Days ago I heard her feeble movements
in the hollow -
said I not that my were acute?
I the scraping, the scraping of her nails -
but I not, I dared not speak!
Madman! Madman!
I tell you that she now towards the door!
USHER MONTRESOR CHORUS VOICES OF THE
No, a House
thought! We
Now the breath!
is finished. The evil that
You said is we are!
she was dead... be We
You watched undone. not
her dying!
It's over now over 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 innocence is done
be
Could have not
prevented?
It's now It's over now
The that The evil that We
is done... is done not
not
be let
could this could never
prevented? be prevented
go!
I dare not could this have it not
I dared not speak! been be prevented!
Madman!
Madman!
I you
she now stands
the door!
USHER MADELINE CHORUS
I'm
Now, No,
Madeline! Madeline!
I have
to a
my eyes closed
and I'm
I am the now to find you... Leave!
of the Usher! Depart!
my death Go!
shall me so.
are you It's over 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 is done that is one
I feel madder cannot be be
the sky undone
moan himself away the evil the evil
to join himself away that 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 joists wainscot shafts We rise Usher
kin-posts stairs parapets
ridge-ribs spandrels pediments
struts columns mansard
cornices gargoyle
king-posts
End of Act Six