Love at First Sight

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Love at First Sight
by Wislawa Szymborska
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They both thought
that a sudden feeling had united them
This certainty is beautiful,
# Z0 A, b1 w* ~- bEven more beautiful than uncertainty.

They thought they didn't know each other,
nothing had ever happened between them,
These streets, these stairs, this corridors,
1 e- \/ [0 z5 B$ o# @) e3 MWhere they could have met so long ago?
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* @5 R; d" {& f0 @3 y$ bI would like to ask them,
7 D; I8 ]# A) K1 v9 w* I' I; {if they can remember -
5 a) A4 ~3 O" D/ sperhaps in a revolving door
face to face one day?
; i, c- z9 z; {' }2 ^' OA "sorry" in the crowd?
"Wrong number" on the 'phone?
- but I know the answer.
' S/ ]+ ~: U4 l* fNo, they don't remember.

How surprised they would be
) k3 {( j7 U7 HFor such a long time already
) H6 q8 _" J! U' ~Fate has been playing with them.
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2 ]. _3 p( B& s& J# g  K5 PNot quite yet ready
to change into destiny,
2 L! r0 h1 r' Nwhich brings them nearer and yet further,
# J6 E8 K( q- W9 |8 D/ @cutting their path
and stifling a laugh,
9 X! ]7 O" p; M$ Z5 v# v/ t; v5 Cescaping ever further;
/ V) e; l9 P7 G. n" kThere were sings, indications,
undecipherable, what does in matter.
4 q8 e& _3 `/ d' R% p1 ~& uThree years ago, perhaps
or even last Tuesday,
this leaf flying
from one shoulder to another?
3 y3 R% D* p1 s, {: k5 zSomething lost and gathered.
0 H) i+ E& ^/ `Who knows, perhaps a ball already
in the bushes, in childhood?
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. L% R) ~7 S8 k9 m7 a. N' MThere were handles, door bells,
5 s3 i$ z1 g+ @where, on the trace of a hand,
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suitcases next to one another in the
left luggage.
And maybe one night the same dream
forgotten on walking;

1 r4 v: v3 Q, h# J9 ?0 r) F# j( e+ mBut every beginning
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and the book of fate is
always open in the middle.
Translation from Polish by Roman Gren
( C9 E( d/ u# ~$ ?! KTranslation 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~!