Hardy v. Hooker, "I Look into my Glass"/"I Looked into my Mirror" (Tempus Fugit 2); Thomas Hardy; John Lee Hooker

A short blues from the "Ebb" film soundtrack, I Looked into my Mirror

With thanks to Ian and John Lee!

Compare with Thomas Hardy:

I LOOK INTO MY GLASS

I LOOK into my glass, 

And view my wasting skin, 

And say, "Would God it came to pass 

My heart had shrunk as thin!" 

For then, I, undistrest 

By hearts grown cold to me, 

Could lonely wait my endless rest 

With equanimity. 

But Time, to make me grieve, 

Part steals, lets part abide; 

And shakes this fragile frame at eve 

With throbbings of noontide.


Andrew Motion recites the poem