Luyện nghe bài hát Victor

(W.H. Auden)
Victor was a little baby, into 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 season for
His father dead of heart disease while lacing up his boots.
It was a frosty December when his grave he sank;
His uncle found Victor a post as a cashier in the Midlands
bank.
It was a frosty December Victor was 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.
Victor went up to his bedroom, set the bell;
Climbed into his bed, 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 hips and her set men
aflame. It was the Second of April, she was wearing a of fur;
Victor met her upon the stairs and in love with her.
The first time he his proposal, she laughed, said:' I'll never

The second time there was a pause, then she shook her head.
looked at the mirror, pouted and gave a Said;'Victor's 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 early in August, she me, you funny

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

Cried:'Are you pleased 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 to the meadow where the wind went
sweeping by: Cried:' O Father, I love her so,' but the wind She
die.'
Victor came to the river so deep and so still;
Crying:' O Father, what shall I do ?' and the answered:' Kill.'
was sitting at table, drawing cards 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 said:'What's the matter, darling ?' he behaved as if he
heard.
There was a voice in his left ear, there was a in the
right,
There was a voice at the of his skull 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 up from the table, Anna started to scream,
But cam slowly after her like a horror in a dream.
She dodged behind the sofa, she tore down a rod,
But Victor came after her, said' Prepare to meet Thy God.'
He stood there above the body, he stood holding the knife;
And the blood ran down the and sang; ' I am the Resurrection
and the Life.'
They tapped Victor on the shoulder, they 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.'