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:' dishonour the family
name.' Victor looked up at his loked up with big round eyes:
His father 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 disease while lacing up his boots.
It was a frosty December into his grave he sank;
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 neat and his straight and his cuffs were
clean.
He took a at the Peveril, a respectableboarding-house: And Time
watched day after day as a cat willwatch a mouse.
Victor went up to his bedroom, set the alarm
Climbed his bed, took his bible and read of happend to Jezebel.
It was the First of April, to the Peveril came;
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 upon the stairs and fell in love 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, pouted and gave a frown; as dull
as a wet afternoon but got to settle down.'
The third hemade his proposal, as they walked by the Reservoir,
She gave him a kiss like a the head, said,'You are my heart's
desire.'
They married in August, she said;'Kiss me, you funny

Victor took her in his arms and my Helen of Troy.'
The clerks talking of Anna, the door was just ajar:
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, Father ?', but the sky not known.'
Victor looked up at the mountains, the mountains all covered

Cried:'Are you pleased with me, ?' and the answer came
back,No.
Victor to the forest, cried:'Father, will she ever be
?'
And the oaks and the beeches shook their and they
Not to you.'
Victor came to the meadow the wind went
sweeping by: Cried:' O Father, I 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 table waiting for her husband to back.
Victor stood in the doorway, he didn't a word;
She the matter, darling ?' he behaved as if he hadn't
heard.
There was a voice in his left ear, was a voice in the
right,
There was a voice at the base of his skull saying:'She 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 from the table, Anna to scream,
But Victor cam slowly after her like a in a dream.
She dodged the sofa, she tore down a curtain 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 down the 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.
I am Alpha and Omega, I shall come
To judge the one day.'