English translation by VSARPJ from PRESENTATION: PROVISIONAL AND CONDITIONAL CLAUSES IN OLD JAPANESE :
‘Is it because it would be regrettable if the deutzia flowers passed by, that the cuckoo cries back and forth across this place, not even stopping for the rain?’

English translation by VSARPJ from Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen W Horn, Kerri L Russell, and Peter Sells "Provisional and Conditional Clauses in Old Japanese":
‘Is it because it would be regrettable if the deutzia flowers passed by, (…)?’