Yamabe no Akihito
Tomorrow I was
Going to the Spring meadows
To pick the young greens.
It snowed all day yesterday
And snowed all day today.

(from "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese)

transl. by Kenneth Rexroth

Asu yoriwa
Haruna tsumanuto
Shimeshi nu ni
Kinō mo kyō mo
Yuki wa furi tsutsu.

This poem could refer to the sudden realization of old age during a love affair with a young girl.