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

The second time there was a pause, then she her head. Anna
looked at the mirror, pouted and a frown; Said;'Victor's as dull
as a wet afternoon but I've got to down.'
The third time hemade his proposal, as walked by the Reservoir,
She gave him a kiss like a blowon the head, said,'You are my
desire.'
married early 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 old Victor, but where ignorance is bliss, etcetera.'
Victor looked up at the sunset as he 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 and the beeches shook their heads 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 running so deep and so
Crying:' O Father, what shall I do ?' and the river Kill.'
was sitting at table, drawing cards from a pack;
Anna was sitting at table waiting for her to come back.
Victor in the doorway, he didn't utter a word;
She said:'What's the matter, darling ?' he as if he hadn't
heard.
There was a voice in his ear, there was a voice in the
right,
There was a voice at the base of his skull must die
tonight.'
Victor picked up a knife, his features were set and
drawn, Said;'Anna, it would have been for you if you had not
born.'
Anna up from the table, Anna started to scream,
But Victor cam slowly after her like a in a dream.
She dodged behind the sofa, she tore a curtain rod,
But Victor came after her, said' Prepare to meet Thy God.'
He stood there above the body, he stood there holding the
And the blood ran 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.'
Victor sat in a
a woman of clay.
Saying:' I am Alpha and Omega, I come
To the earth one day.'