Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past

The long slow days of spring piling up, so far away the past	osoki hi no tsumorite tooki mukashi kana	遅き日の つもりて遠き 昔かな
Basho	bashou	芭蕉

According to Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 by Haruo Shirane and James Brandon, "'Long day' (osoki hi) is a late-spring day when the sun sets late and the day seems to last forever, reminding the poet both of the past, of youth, which seems so far away, and of the many springs and years that have come and gone since that time."