Luyện nghe bài hát The Absentee

"Someone is absent," the said
As over my classbook he bent his
"For several Sundays too
So me teacher what did you do?"

"I call as perhaps I should
I sent cards but they did no good
I never and she never came
So I to drop her name"

He answered gravely, "The was mine
Hundred, no, were ninety nine
One was lost and and cold
I that sheep that had left the fold

The path was stony and with thorns
My feet were wounded bruised and
I kept on searching not counting the
And when I found the lost"

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