Luyện nghe bài hát Victor

(W.H. Auden)
Victor was a little baby, into this he came:
His father him on his knee and said:' Don't dishonour the family
name.' Victor looked up at his loked up with big round eyes:
His father said:' Victor, my only son, don't you ever lies.'
It was a frosty December, it wsn't the season for
His father fell dead of disease while lacing up his boots.
It was a frosty December when into his grave he
His found Victor a post as a cashier in the Midlands Counties
bank.
It was a frosty December Victor was eighteen.
But his were neat and his margins straight and his cuffs were
clean.
He a room at the Peveril, a respectableboarding-house: And Time
watched day after day as a cat willwatch a mouse.
Victor up to his bedroom, set the alarm bell;
Climbed into his bed, his bible and read of happend to Jezebel.
It was the First of April, Anna to the Peveril
Her eyes, her lips, her breasts, her and her smile set men
aflame. It was the Second of April, she was wearing a of fur;
Victor met her the stairs and fell in love with her.
The first he made his proposal, she laughed, said:' I'll never

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

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

Cried:'Are you with me, Father ?' and the answer came
back,No.
came to the forest, cried:'Father, will she ever be
?'
And the oaks and the beeches shook their heads and
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 running so deep and so
Crying:' O Father, what I do ?' and the river answered:' Kill.'
Anna was at table, drawing cards from a pack;
Anna was sitting at table waiting for her husband to back.
Victor stood in the doorway, he utter a word;
She the matter, darling ?' he behaved as if he hadn't
heard.
There was a 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 better for you if you had not
born.'
Anna jumped up from the table, started to scream,
But Victor cam slowly after her 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 there above the body, he stood there holding the knife;
And the blood ran down the stairs and ' I am the Resurrection
and the Life.'
They tapped Victor on the shoulder, they took him
in a
He sat as quiet as a 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.'