Luyện nghe bài hát Victor

(W.H. Auden)
Victor was a little baby, this world he came:
His father him on his knee and said:' Don't dishonour the family
name.' Victor looked up at his father- loked up with big eyes:
His father Victor, my only son, don't you ever tell lies.'
It was a frosty December, it wsn't the season for
His father fell dead of heart disease while up his boots.
It was a frosty when into his grave he sank;
His found Victor 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
Victor 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, Anna to the Peveril
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 love her.
The time he made his proposal, she laughed, said:' I'll never

The second there was a pause, then she shook her head. Anna
looked at the mirror, and gave a frown; Said;'Victor's as dull
as a wet afternoon but got to settle down.'
The third time hemade his proposal, as walked by the Reservoir,
She gave him a kiss a blowon the head, said,'You are my heart's
desire.'
They 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 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, Father ?', but the sky not known.'
Victor up at the mountains, the mountains all covered with

Cried:'Are you with me, Father ?' and the answer came
back,No.
came 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 where the wind
sweeping by: O Father, I love her so,' but the wind said:' She
die.'
Victor came to the river running so and so still;
Crying:' O Father, what shall I do ?' and the answered:' Kill.'
Anna was sitting at table, drawing from a pack;
was sitting at table waiting for her husband to come back.
Victor stood in the doorway, he didn't a word;
She said:'What's the matter, ?' he behaved as if he hadn't
heard.
There was a in his left ear, there was a voice in the
right,
was a voice at the base 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 jumped up 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 slowly after her, said' to meet Thy God.'
He stood there above the body, he stood there holding the
And the blood ran down the stairs and ' 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.'
Victor sat in a
Making a of clay.
Saying:' I am Alpha and Omega, I come
To judge the one day.'