Luyện nghe bài hát The Absentee

"Someone is absent," the shepherd
As my classbook he bent his head
"For Sundays absent too
So tell me what did you do?"

"I didn't as perhaps I should
I sent some cards but did no good
I never and she never came
So I decided to her name"

He gravely, "The fault was mine
Hundred, no, there were ninety
One was lost and and cold
I sought that sheep that had the fold

The path was and edged with thorns
My feet were bruised and torn
I kept on searching not the cost
And when I found the lost"

Thus spoke the shepherd in tones
"I and lo, I was all alone
But God, a vision, had to me
To his will towards the absentee"