Luyện nghe bài hát Act Six

CHORUS endless days of bitter grief passed
and abandoned any attempt to cheer his friend.
Then came a sudden change in
demeanour, whose he was soon to comprehend.
Now Usher for hour on hour
with head and eyes half-closed,
as if beneath the deep and silence
a sound exists for he listens; a sound without end.
Now walks for hour on hour.
With ashen and trembling step, he climbs each stair,
He climbs each tower; hears it there.
AND No. It's only the
THE beating of the heart,
OF THE HOUSE heart of the of Usher,
of the heart
heart of the of Usher.
USHER
Roderick is you?
I could not
Nor I.
to the storm!
Did you hear
a dreadful sound?
Indeed.
I have!
But sound you can hear;
the tempest beats the House
as it would upon a drum,
that is no to fear.
For the to fear
It beats the house.
walk softly when come
The seems so near
But only the But it's only the
of the heart, beating of the heart,
heart of the of Usher. heart of the House of Usher.
USHER MONTRESOR OF THE HOUSE
Oh the is Beating of the heart,
in frenzy, I heart of the
can the waves of Usher
beat on the Beating of the heart
The of the heart! heart of the House
These stones of Usher.
are trembling Beating of the
the lashing heart 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 by of Usher
of the storm? shall stand.
The
But understand we of Usher
hear the House stand
Speaking of a 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 and grows yet stronger.
walls are shaking!
You shall something for me;
you shall and I shall listen.
So we will pass this dreadful night.
Yes I shall play,
yes, I play!
(The Haunted In the of our valleys
Palace) by good tenanted
a fair and stately palace -
radiant palace - its head.
In the monarch, Thought's
a jewel it stood there.
Never spread a pinion
over fabric so fair.
Wanderers in that valley
two luminous windows saw
spirits musically
to a well-tuned law,
about a throne where sitting,
side by side his fair queen,
in state his glory befitting,
the ruler of the was seen.
MONTRESOR
Wait!
Did you it?
was it?
nothing.
What was
sound?
I say, I heard
All with pearl and ruby
was the palace door
through which flowing, flowing,
flowing and sparkling
a of echoes, whose sweet duty
night and day was but to
in voices of surpassing
the wit and wisdom of king.
USHER
No!
something,
I it
clear,
a crying.
nothing
I say
but the wind!
You the wind,
heard Within the House!
the wild crying.
But evil things, in robes of
assailed the high estate;
let us mourn for morrow
upon him, desolate;
round his home the glory
that had always and bloomed
is but a dim-remembered
of the time entombed.
USHER
There!
Yes, you it!
is someone else -
There's nothing else
I say, there!
You nothing!
There's there.
It is the Are we
you hear. alone here?
Travellers now that valley
through windows see
vast that move fantastically
to a discordant
like a rapid, ghastly river
through the ever door
a hideous rush out forever
and - but smile no more!
And - but smile no more!
And - but smile no more!
No! No! No!
Yes, I hear it! Yes, I heard it
long, long - minutes, many hours,
but I not speak:
I you I dared not speak.
No more cant you,
you thick-skinned obtuse fool, 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 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.
ago I heard her first feeble movements
in the hollow -
said I not that my senses acute?
I the scraping, the scraping of her nails -
but I dared not, I not speak!
Madman! Madman!
I tell you that she now towards the door!
MONTRESOR CHORUS VOICES 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!
over now It's over now
What evil let
you done? It not
be them go!
God, a
thought!
It's over now over now. We
The that
Why must innocence is could
be
Could 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 have could never
prevented? be prevented
go!
I dare not this have it could not
I not speak! been prevented? be prevented!
Madman!
Madman!
I you
she now stands
the door!
USHER MADELINE MONTRESOR
I'm
Now, No,
Madeline! Madeline!
I counted
to a
my eyes closed
and I'm
I am the last now to you... Leave!
of the Usher! Depart!
my sister's 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? It's now Depart!
the sky I see. Go!
Now he
of death, the evil the
some things even that is done is one
I feel cannot be cannot be
the sky undone
shuts himself away the evil the evil
to join shuts himself away is come that is come
the slime!
He shut could not not
away! be prevented. be prevented.
AS THE HOUSE
THE VOICES beams buttresses plaster We We
OF THE corbels quoins chimney- breath are
HOUSE joists arches shafts We rise Usher
kin-posts piers stairs
ridge-ribs banister pediments
struts columns mansard
stanchions gargoyle
eaves
End of Act Six