Luyện nghe bài hát Victor

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

The time there was a pause, then she shook her head. Anna
at the mirror, pouted and gave a frown; 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 gave him a kiss like a blowon the head, said,'You are my
desire.'
They married early in August, she me, you funny

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

Cried:'Are you with me, Father ?' and the answer came
back,No.
Victor came to the forest, cried:'Father, she ever be
?'
And the oaks and the beeches shook heads and they
Not to you.'
Victor to the meadow where the wind went
sweeping by: Cried:' O Father, I love her so,' but the said:' She
die.'
Victor to the river running so deep and so still;
Crying:' O Father, shall I do ?' and the river answered:' Kill.'
Anna was sitting at table, drawing cards from a
Anna was sitting at table waiting for her husband to back.
Victor stood in the doorway, he utter a word;
She said:'What's the matter, darling ?' he as if he hadn't
heard.
There was a voice in his left ear, was a voice in the
right,
There was a at the base of his skull saying:'She must die
tonight.'
Victor picked up a carving knife, his 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 after her like a horror in a dream.
She dodged behind the sofa, she tore down a rod,
But Victor came slowly after her, said' Prepare to Thy God.'
He stood there above the body, he stood there 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 of moss saying; ' I am the Son of
Man.'
Victor sat in a
Making a of clay.
Saying:' I am and Omega, I shall come
To the earth one day.'