Luyện nghe bài hát Victor

(W.H. Auden)
Victor was a little baby, into this he came:
His father took him on his knee and said:' Don't the family
name.' Victor looked up at his father- up with big round eyes:
His father said:' Victor, my only son, don't you tell lies.'
It was a December, it wsn't the season for fruits;
His father fell dead of heart disease lacing up his boots.
It was a frosty December when his grave he sank;
His found Victor a post as a cashier in the Midlands Counties
bank.
It was a frosty Victor was only eighteen.
But his figures were neat and his margins and his cuffs were
clean.
He a room at the Peveril, a respectableboarding-house: And Time
watched Victor day after day as a cat a mouse.
Victor went up to his bedroom, set the bell;
Climbed into his bed, took his and read of happend to Jezebel.
It was the First of April, Anna to the came;
Her eyes, her lips, her breasts, her and her smile set men
aflame. It was the Second of April, she was wearing a coat of
Victor met her upon the and fell in love with her.
The first time he made his proposal, she laughed, said:' I'll

The second time there was a pause, then she shook her head.
looked at the mirror, and gave a frown; Said;'Victor's as dull
as a wet but I've got to settle down.'
The third hemade his proposal, as they walked by the Reservoir,
She gave him a kiss like a blowon the head, said,'You are my
desire.'
They married early in August, she me, you funny

Victor took her in his arms and said:'O my of Troy.'
The clerks talking of Anna, the door was just ajar:
One old Victor, but where ignorance is bliss, etcetera.'
Victor looked up at the sunset as he stood all alone; Cried:'Are
you in Heaven, Father ?', but the sky not known.'
looked up at the mountains, the mountains all covered with

Cried:'Are you with me, Father ?' and the answer came
back,No.
Victor came to the forest, cried:'Father, will she be
?'
And the oaks and the beeches shook heads and they
Not to you.'
Victor came to the meadow where the wind
by: Cried:' O Father, I love her so,' but the wind said:' She
die.'
Victor came to the running so deep and so still;
Crying:' O Father, shall I do ?' and the river answered:' Kill.'
Anna was sitting at table, drawing from a pack;
Anna was sitting at table for her husband to come back.
stood in the doorway, he didn't utter a word;
She said:'What's the matter, darling ?' he behaved as if he
heard.
was a voice in his left ear, there was a voice in the
right,
There was a voice at the base of his saying:'She must die
tonight.'
Victor picked up a carving knife, his features set and
drawn, Said;'Anna, it would have been for you if you had not
born.'
Anna jumped up from the table, Anna to scream,
But Victor cam slowly her like a horror in a dream.
She dodged behind the sofa, she down a curtain rod,
But Victor came slowly after her, said' Prepare to Thy God.'
He stood there above the body, he stood holding the knife;
And the blood ran the stairs and sang; ' I am the Resurrection
and the Life.'
tapped Victor on the shoulder, they took him away
in a
He sat as quiet as a lump of moss ' I am the Son of
Man.'
Victor sat in a
a woman of clay.
Saying:' I am Alpha and Omega, I shall
To judge the one day.'