English translation by VSARPJ from PRESENTATION: PROVISIONAL AND CONDITIONAL CLAUSES IN OLD JAPANESE :
‘How regrettable is the snow that falls pressing down the leaves of the sedge of the deep mountains if (it) melted away.’

English translation by VSARPJ from Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen W Horn, Kerri L Russell, and Peter Sells "Provisional and Conditional Clauses in Old Japanese":
‘How regrettable would be the snow that falls pressing down the leaves of the sedge of the deep mountains if (it) melted away.’