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 Don't dishonour the family
name.' Victor up at his father- loked up with big round eyes:
His father said:' Victor, my only son, don't you tell lies.'
It was a frosty December, it wsn't the season for
His father fell of heart disease while lacing up his boots.
It was a frosty December when into his grave he
His uncle found a post as a cashier in the Midlands Counties
bank.
It was a frosty December was only eighteen.
But his figures were and his margins straight 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.
went up to his bedroom, set the alarm bell;
Climbed into his bed, took his bible and read of 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 love her.
The first time he made his proposal, she laughed, said:' never

The second time 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 hemade his proposal, as they walked 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 said;'Kiss me, you

Victor took her in his and said:'O my Helen of Troy.'
The were 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 there all alone;
you in Heaven, ?', but the sky said'Address not known.'
Victor looked up at the mountains, the mountains all with

Cried:'Are you pleased with me, Father ?' and the 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
by: Cried:' O Father, I love her so,' but the wind said:' She
die.'
Victor came to the river 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 waiting for her husband to come back.
Victor stood in the doorway, he didn't utter a
She said:'What's the matter, darling ?' he behaved as if he
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.'
Victor picked up a carving knife, his were set and
drawn, Said;'Anna, it would been better 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 tore down a rod,
But Victor came slowly after her, said' Prepare to Thy God.'
He stood there the body, he stood there holding the knife;
And the ran down the stairs and sang; ' I am the Resurrection
and the Life.'
They tapped on the shoulder, they took him away
in a
He sat as quiet as a lump of moss ' 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.'