Love at First Sight

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Love at First Sight
by Wislawa Szymborska


They both thought
that a sudden feeling had united them
This certainty is beautiful,
8 A# S  i6 G, Y" AEven more beautiful than uncertainty.
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They thought they didn't know each other,
nothing had ever happened between them,
- b* g0 |$ O5 G& D& f5 |These streets, these stairs, this corridors,
Where they could have met so long ago?
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: _! U( K! X  N# @3 V. \I would like to ask them,
if they can remember -
& [! H% M1 `; k9 S+ n8 F; nperhaps in a revolving door
- _# [3 O" m) p) v: Z' ?face to face one day?
2 M( u7 |3 B# N; E% |& ?$ D( DA "sorry" in the crowd?
"Wrong number" on the 'phone?
3 Z9 g3 ?0 X' h* s  N+ J- but I know the answer.
: F* z- B. g! c+ k. o: s0 `No, they don't remember.
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$ u: X2 n* K! R( i# U6 [+ ]4 vHow surprised they would be
For such a long time already
Fate has been playing with them.

Not quite yet ready
: K2 ]1 k) Y( B0 X4 Fto change into destiny,
which brings them nearer and yet further,
cutting their path
and stifling a laugh,
, A2 p# _' O; Q' o7 Wescaping ever further;
) b2 G3 g8 m" ~$ G! bThere were sings, indications,
undecipherable, what does in matter.
7 h0 l3 {1 s+ VThree years ago, perhaps
or even last Tuesday,
this leaf flying
* K$ q# T) X- L: X% Wfrom one shoulder to another?
; J1 T# D2 n1 @5 [  x6 e. DSomething lost and gathered.
/ ]0 O% X: w2 J7 O. wWho knows, perhaps a ball already
* D8 G: W4 a" A6 xin the bushes, in childhood?
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# \7 \2 u/ e7 J; l( Q+ r8 XThere were handles, door bells,
8 Q5 c* f" p, S5 p& h* j/ U5 Y: }where, on the trace of a hand,
2 Z2 ^( {8 e' C+ Oanother hand was placed;
suitcases next to one another in the
left luggage.
And maybe one night the same dream
forgotten on walking;

But every beginning
is only a continuation
- J; f( U+ w9 \and the book of fate is
always open in the middle.
( p2 f4 k0 n8 s5 nTranslation from Polish by Roman Gren
Translation from French by Sarah Hardenberg

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向左走向右走里面有用这首诗的一节哎~!