Sent to a lady with whom he had once been intimate, after some years had passed.

いにしへのしづのをだまき繰りかへし昔を今になすよしもがな

inishie no shizu no odamaki kurikaeshi mukashi o ima ni nasu yoshi mogana

In times long gone Thread upon a bobbin was Wound back— Just so, the present into the past I wish we could make!

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It seems, though, that the lady thought nothing of it.