Luyện nghe bài hát Victor

(W.H. Auden)
Victor was a little baby, this world he came:
His father him on his knee and said:' Don't dishonour the family
name.' looked up at his father- loked up with big round eyes:
His said:' Victor, my only son, don't you ever tell lies.'
It was a frosty December, it the season for fruits;
His father dead of heart disease while 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 December Victor was only eighteen.
But his figures were neat and his margins straight and his were
clean.
He took a room at the Peveril, a respectableboarding-house: And
Victor day after day as a cat willwatch a mouse.
Victor went up to his bedroom, set the bell;
Climbed his bed, took his bible and read of happend to Jezebel.
It was the of April, Anna to the Peveril came;
Her eyes, her lips, her breasts, her hips and her set men
aflame. It was the of April, she was wearing a coat of fur;
Victor met her upon the stairs and fell in love her.
The first time he his proposal, she laughed, said:' I'll never

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

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

Cried:'Are you pleased with me, ?' and the answer came
back,No.
Victor came to the forest, cried:'Father, she ever be
?'
And the oaks and the beeches shook their and they
Not to you.'
Victor came to the where the wind went
sweeping by: Cried:' O Father, I love her so,' but the said:' She
die.'
Victor came to the river so deep and so still;
Crying:' O Father, shall I do ?' and the river answered:' Kill.'
was sitting at table, drawing cards from a pack;
Anna was sitting at table waiting for her to come back.
Victor stood in the doorway, he didn't utter a
She the matter, darling ?' he behaved as if he hadn't
heard.
There was a voice in his ear, there was a voice in the
right,
There was a at the base of his skull saying:'She must die
tonight.'
picked up a carving knife, his features were set and
drawn, Said;'Anna, it would have better for you if you had not
born.'
Anna jumped up the table, Anna started to scream,
But Victor cam slowly her like a horror in a dream.
She dodged behind the sofa, she tore a curtain rod,
But Victor slowly after her, said' Prepare to meet Thy God.'
He stood there above the body, he there 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 as a lump of moss saying; ' I am the Son of
Man.'
sat in a corner
Making a of clay.
Saying:' I am and Omega, I shall come
To judge the one day.'