Luyện nghe bài hát Victor

(W.H. Auden)
Victor was a little baby, into this he came:
His father him on his knee and said:' Don't dishonour the family
name.' Victor up at his father- loked up with big round eyes:
His said:' Victor, my only son, don't you ever tell lies.'
It was a frosty December, it wsn't the for fruits;
His father fell dead of heart disease while up his boots.
It was a frosty December into his grave he sank;
His uncle Victor a post as a cashier in the Midlands Counties
bank.
It was a frosty Victor was only eighteen.
But his figures neat and his margins straight and his cuffs were
clean.
He took a room at the Peveril, a respectableboarding-house: And
watched Victor day day as a cat willwatch a mouse.
Victor up to his bedroom, set the alarm bell;
into his bed, took his bible and read of happend to Jezebel.
It was the of April, Anna 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 a coat of fur;
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 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 I've got to down.'
The third time hemade his proposal, as they by the Reservoir,
She gave him a kiss like a blowon the head, said,'You are my
desire.'
They married early in August, she said;'Kiss me, you

Victor her in his arms and said:'O my Helen of Troy.'
The clerks were talking of Anna, the door was just
One said:'Poor old Victor, but where is bliss, etcetera.'
looked up at the sunset as he stood there 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 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 heads and they
Not to you.'
Victor came to the meadow the wind went
sweeping by: Cried:' O Father, I love her so,' but the said:' She
die.'
Victor came to the running so deep and so still;
Crying:' O Father, what I do ?' and the river answered:' Kill.'
Anna was sitting at table, drawing cards from a
Anna was sitting at table for her husband to come back.
Victor stood in the doorway, he didn't a word;
She said:'What's the matter, darling ?' he behaved as if he
heard.
was a voice in his left 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 knife, his features were set and
drawn, Said;'Anna, it would have been for you if you had not
born.'
Anna jumped up the table, Anna started to scream,
But cam slowly after her like a horror in a dream.
She dodged behind the sofa, she down a curtain rod,
But Victor came after her, said' Prepare to meet Thy God.'
He stood there above the body, he stood there the knife;
And the blood ran down the stairs and sang; ' I am the
and the Life.'
They tapped Victor on the shoulder, took him away
in a
He sat as as a lump of moss saying; ' I am the Son of
Man.'
Victor sat in a
a woman of clay.
Saying:' I am and Omega, I shall come
To the earth one day.'